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PATRICK FRENCH
was born in England in 1966 and studied literature at Edinburgh University. He is the author of Younghusband, Liberty or Death and Tibet, Tibet, and is a winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award. The World Is What It Is won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Hawthornden Prize.
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Tibet, Tibet
Written by Patrick French
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $14.95
When Patrick French was a teenager, the Dalai Lama visited his school in northern England. Fascinated by this exotic apparition, French began what was to become a lifelong quest to understand Tibet, the myth and the fact. He would immerse himself in the history, travel as the guest of ordinary Tibetans—nuns... Read more >
Written by Patrick French
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $14.95
When Patrick French was a teenager, the Dalai Lama visited his school in northern England. Fascinated by this exotic apparition, French began what was to become a lifelong quest to understand Tibet, the myth and the fact. He would immerse himself in the history, travel as the guest of ordinary Tibetans—nuns... Read more >
Tibet, Tibet
A Personal History of a Lost Land
Written by Patrick French
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $25.00
When Patrick French was a teenager, the Dalai Lama visited his school in northern England. Fascinated by this exotic apparition, French began what was to become a lifelong quest to understand Tibet, the myth and the fact. He would immerse himself in the history, travel as the guest of ordinary Tibetans–nuns... Read more >
A Personal History of a Lost Land
Written by Patrick French
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $25.00
When Patrick French was a teenager, the Dalai Lama visited his school in northern England. Fascinated by this exotic apparition, French began what was to become a lifelong quest to understand Tibet, the myth and the fact. He would immerse himself in the history, travel as the guest of ordinary Tibetans–nuns... Read more >
Tibet, Tibet
Written by Patrick French
Format: eBook
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 9, 2009
Price: $14.95
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Written by Patrick French
Format: eBook
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 9, 2009
Price: $14.95
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The World Is What It Is
The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
Written by Patrick French
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $17.00
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.
Beginning in rich detail in Trinidad, where Naipaul was born into an Indian family, Patrick French skillfully examines Naipaul’ s... Read more >
The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
Written by Patrick French
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $17.00
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.
Beginning in rich detail in Trinidad, where Naipaul was born into an Indian family, Patrick French skillfully examines Naipaul’ s... Read more >
The World Is What It Is
The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul
Written by Patrick French
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $30.00
Since V. S. Naipaul left his Caribbean birthplace at the age of seventeen, his improbable life has followed the global movement of peoples, whose preeminent literary chronicler he has become. In The World Is What It Is, Patrick French offers the first authoritative biography of the controversial Nobel laureate, whose only... Read more >
The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul
Written by Patrick French
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $30.00
Since V. S. Naipaul left his Caribbean birthplace at the age of seventeen, his improbable life has followed the global movement of peoples, whose preeminent literary chronicler he has become. In The World Is What It Is, Patrick French offers the first authoritative biography of the controversial Nobel laureate, whose only... Read more >
The World Is What It Is
Written by Patrick French
Format: eBook
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $17.00
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Written by Patrick French
Format: eBook
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $17.00
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