Full name: Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents

Author: Paul Theroux Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction, Travel Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780618001996 0618001999

This heartfelt and revealing account of Paul Theroux's thirty-year friendship with the legendary V. S. Naipaul is an intimate record of a literary mentorship that traces the growth of both writers' careers and explores the unique effect each had on the other. Built around exotic landscapes, anecdotes that are revealing, humorous, and melancholy, and three decades of mutual history, this is a personal account of how one develops as a writer and how a friendship waxes and wanes between two men who have set themselves on the perilous journey of a writing life. Similar books: The World Is My Home by James A. Michener After All by Mary Tyler Moore Knots in My Yo-Yo String by Jerry Spinelli Traci Lords: Underneath It All by Traci Lords The Enchanted Places by Christopher Milne Ron Jeremy by Ron Jeremy Must You Go? by Antonia Fraser Looking Back by Lois Lowry Messages From My Father by Calvin Trillin My First Five Husbands ... and the Ones Who Got Away by Rue McClanahan Walking in the Shade by Doris Lessing Memoirs by Kingsley Amis Deep South by Paul Theroux My Life So Far by Jane Fonda Under a Wing by Reeve Lindbergh Little Princes by Conor Grennan Hiking Through by Paul Stutzman Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff