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Letters Between a Father and Son V. S. Naipaul

Letters Between a Father and Son By V. S. Naipaul

Letters Between a Father and Son by V. S. Naipaul


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An astonishing selection of letters from V. S. Naipaul's formative years, rich with compassion, literary beauty and a genuine literary intent.

Letters Between a Father and Son Summary

Letters Between a Father and Son by V. S. Naipaul

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 V. S. 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 has been updated with new material. Spanning the early years of V. S. Naipaul's burgeoning literary career, these letters touch time and again on the craft of writing, and reveal the relationships and experiences that formed and influenced one of the greatest and most enigmatic literary figures of our age.

`Extraordinary and moving . . . this book is both heartening and terribly sad' Alain de Botton, Sunday Telegraph

`Rare and precious . . . if any modern writer was going to breathe a last gasp into the epistolary tradition, it was always likely to be V. S. Naipaul' Robert Winder, New Statesman

'A fascinating psychological narrative' Jason Cowley, The Times

About V. S. Naipaul

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 twenty books of fiction and non-fiction, including Half a Life, A House for Mr Biswas, A Bend in the River and most recently The Masque of Africa, and a collection of correspondence, Letters Between A Father and Son. In 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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GOR003152594
9780330473231
0330473239
Letters Between a Father and Son by V. S. Naipaul
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pan Macmillan
20090403
496
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