SAINT JACK [Inscribed to V.S. Naipaul]

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 247 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine white and multi-color with black lettering. Dust jacket protected in mylar covering, with price uncut: "$5.95." Minor shelf wear. Light scuffing to front cover. Sunning to spine. Top edge of textblock dyed red. Interior pages clean. Inscribed from Theroux to V.S. Naipaul and Patricia Naipaul on title page, dated July 1973. JC consignment. Shelved in Case 3. Paul Theroux and V.S. Naipaul were literary associates and friends for 30 years. The two met in 1965 when Theroux was teaching at Makerere University in Uganda. Theroux wrote a well-received biography of Naipaul a year before publishing his first novel. Despite their close friendship, their relationship became rocky and led Theroux to publish another biography, though of harsher tone, of Naipaul and his wife Pat in Sir Vidia's Shadow in 1998.


Saint Jack was adapted into a film by the same name in 1979. 1383375. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.