Patrick French The World is what it is An Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul - London Picador 2008 - xviii, 554 p. Paper back Includes Index. ISBN: 9780330440097 Subjects--Topical Terms: Biography-V.S.Naipaul/ Novel prize winner/ Author's Trinidadian Dewey Class. No.: 928 FRW / FRW