A Turn in the South
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A reflective journey through the American South in the late 1980s, this remarkable book explores race, culture and country with the insight and originality we expect from one of our best travel writers. Naipaul writes of his encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers and ordinary men and women, both black and white, revealing a society shaped by the broken cause of the old Confederacy and the frustrated anger of Southern blacks whose power remains circumscribed.
Fascinating and poetic, his supple and fluid prose is meticulously crafted, adventurous and quick to surprise, with the freshness and originality of vision that marks all his work.
'Naipaul writes as if a modern oracle has chosen to speak through him. It is a tissue of brilliantly recorded hearsay, of intense listening by a man with a remarkable ear' New York Times Review of Books
'The best thing outside fiction that I have read on the Old South pregnant with the new since W. J. Cash's The Mind of the South published over fifty years ago' Sunday Telegraph
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