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Sir Vidia's Shadow A Friendship Across Five Continents

Paul Theroux

One year before he published his first book, Paul Theroux met V.S. Naipaul-Vidia, as he was known. For thirty years both men remained in close touch, even when continents separated them. Sir Vidia's Shadow is a double portrait of the writing life, but it is much more, for travel and reading and emot...

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The Ezra Klein Show

He called it one of his favorite books, a beautifully strange memoir about Theroux's friendship with V.S.Naipaul, praising its humor and depth.

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For book number three, I just want to shout out one of my favorite books of all time, published in 1998 called Sir Vidia's Shadow by Paul Theroux.

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He called it one of his favorite books, a beautifully strange memoir about Theroux's friendship with V.S.Naipaul, praising its humor and depth.

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For book number three, I just want to shout out one of my favorite books of all time, published in 1998 called Sir Vidia's Shadow by Paul Theroux.

It's about his decadeslong friendship with the novelist, essayist, memoirist V.S.Naipaul and it's just a really weird, strange, incredibly beautiful book.

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