Deserted wife’s tale FRANCES WILSON The Year of the End: A Memoir of Marriage, Truth and Fiction
Jul 28, 2021
3 minutes
By Anne Theroux
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In Sir Vidia’s Shadow (1998), Paul Theroux described the breakdown of his 30-year friendship with V S Naipaul, which had reached, he tells us in the subtitle, ‘across five continents’.
So blinded was he by Naipaul’s talent that Theroux had failed to notice his mentor was a monster. It was only when Naipaul, recently remarried, dropped him that Theroux realised he ‘had freed me, he had opened my eyes, he had given
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