DANCING IN SIR VIDIA'S SHADOW; "TELL THE TRUTH," IS WHAT PAUL THEROUX LEARNED FROM V.S. NAIPAUL. NOW THAT HE HAS PUBLISHED A BOOK ON HIS MENTOR, CALLED "SIR VIDIA'S SHADOW," THEROUX IS BATTLING CRITICISM THAT HE HAS BETRAYED HIS FORMER FRIEND.(LIFE) From: The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC) | Date: December 4, 1998 | COPYRIGHT 1998 News & Record. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: MORT ROSENBLUM

The Associated Press EAST SANDWICH, Mass. - Paul Theroux, lord of the hit-and-run travelogue and novels sneakily larded with facts, has now written a book so biting it has reared up to take chunks out of the author.

He is used to creating a stir. In his travel book of the South Pacific, "The Happy Isles of Oceania," he depicted New Zealand Governor General Dame Cath Tizard shoveling food onto her fork with her thumb. That caused the bi...