# The World Is What It Is

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- Authors: [Patrick French](https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-french)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-14-0007-980-3
- Pages: 592
- Published: 2009-11-03
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The first major biography of V. S. Naipaul, the controversial and enigmatic Nobel laureate: a stunning writer whose only stated ambition was greatness, in pursuit of which goal nothing else was sacred....