An astonishing selection of letters from V. S. Naipaul's formative years, rich with compassion, literary beauty and a genuine literary intent.
In 1950, V. S. Naipaul travelled from Trinidad to England to take up a place at Oxford University. Over the next few years, letters passed back and forth between Naipaul and his family - particularly his beloved father Seepersad, but also his mother and siblings. The result is a fascinating chronicle of Naipaul's time at university; the love of writing that he shared with his father and their mutual nurturing of literary ambition; the triumphs and depressions of Oxford life; and the travails of his family back at home.
This engrossing collection continues into the early years of V. S. Naipaul's literary career, touching time and again on the craft of writing, and revealing the relationships and experiences that formed and influenced one of the greatest and most enigmatic literary figures of our age.
V S Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at University College, Oxford, he began to write, and since then has followed no other profession. He has published more than 20 books of fiction and non-fiction, including Half a Life, A House for Mr Biswas and A Bend in the River. In 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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9780330522960
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Pub. Date:
15/09/2011
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Literature & Literary Studies
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Picador
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480 page/s
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A Bend in the River
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A House for Mr Biswas
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A Turn in the South
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A Way in the World
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A Writer's People
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Among the Believers An Islamic Journey
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An Area of Darkness His Discovery of India
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Beyond Belief
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Guerrillas
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Half a Life
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Half a Life
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In a Free State: The Novel
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India
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India: A Wounded Civilization
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Letters Between a Father and Son
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Literary Occasions
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Magic Seeds
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Miguel Street
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The Enigma of Arrival A Novel in Five Sections
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The Loss of El Dorado A Colonial History
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The Writer and the World
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