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Books: Vindictive through and Theroux Sir Vidia's Shadow by Paul Theroux Penguin pounds 7.99
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Other people's gossip is rarely interesting: when Theroux's
obituary to his friendship with V S Naipaul was published last year,
and the press started talking about a great "literary feud", many
people must surely have had to suppress a yawn. Could this story be
remotely interesting to anybody outside the narrow, navel-gazing
world of publishing and reviewing?
Surprisingly, it could. Sir Vidia's Shadow is an extraordinarily
controlled, gripping meditation on friendship, on ego, on the
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Books: paperback round-up
The Independent - London
; Planet of the Blind by Stephen Kuusisto, Faber pounds 6.99. Kuusisto is not himself blind, but partially sighted: for him ... what blindness means. A History of God by Karen Armstrong, Vintage pounds 9.99. This is really a history of monotheism - or rather, of the monotheistic ... Christianity and Islam. Armstrong ...
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