{"product_id":"2940169919479","title":"The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book: And Other Comic Inventions","description":"\u003cp\u003eV. S. Naipaul's legendary command of broad comedy and acute social observation is on abundant display in these classic works of fiction-two novels and a collection of stories-that capture the rhythms of life in the Caribbean and England with impressive subtlety and humor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Suffrage of Elvira \u003c\/i\u003eis Naipaul's hilarious take on an electoral campaign in the back country of Trinidad, where the candidates' tactics include blatant vote-buying and supernatural sabotage. The eponymous protagonist of \u003ci\u003eMr. Stone and the Knights Companion\u003c\/i\u003e is an aging Englishman of ponderously regular habits whose life is thrown into upheaval by a sudden marriage and unanticipated professional advancement. And the stories in \u003ci\u003eA Flag on the Island\u003c\/i\u003e take us from a Chinese bakery in Trinidad-whose black proprietor faces bankruptcy until he takes a Chinese name-to a rooming house in London-where the genteel landlady plays a nasty Darwinian game with her budgerigars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnfailingly stylish, filled with intelligence and feeling, here is the work of a writer who can do just about anything that can be done with language.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104714408176,"sku":"2940169919479","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169919479_p0.jpg?v=1769903023","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169919479","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}