The Nobel Prize-winning author delivers a revealing and disturbing book about the American Southâfrom Atlanta to Charleston, Tallahassee to Tuskegee, Nashville to Chapel Hill. âą âHis comprehension is astute and penetrating.... The book he has written brings new understanding [of] the subject.â âThe New York Times Book Review
In the tradition of political and cultural revelation V.S. Naipaul so brilliantly made his own in Among The Believers, A Turn In The South is his first book about the United States.
âNaipaulâs chapters honor the diversity that marks the South.... Conservatives and liberals, whites and blacks, men and women speak for themselves, and reveal the dark side of the story in their own ways ⊠fascinating and revealing.â âThe New Republic
âMr. Naipaul travels with the artistâs eye and ear and his observations are sharply discerning.â âEvelyn Waugh
âA master of English prose.â âNobel Prize Winner J. M. Coetzee, The New York Review of Books
"His writing is clean and beautiful, and he has a great eye for nuance.... No American writer could achieve [his] kind of evenhandedness, and it gives Naipaul's perceptions an almost built-in originality." âAtlantic Monthly