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Between Father and Son : Family Letters by V. S. Naipaul HC/DJ 1999
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A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the book cover, with the dust jacket (if applicable) included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. Some identifying marks on the inside cover, but this is minimal. Very little wear and tear. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller notes
- “1st American edition”
- ISBN
- 9780375407307
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375407308
ISBN-13
9780375407307
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1576752
Product Key Features
Book Title
Between Father and Son : Family Letters
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Caribbean & Latin American, Parenting / Fatherhood, Letters, Literary
Publication Year
2000
Genre
Literary Criticism, Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
23 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
99-031089
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"For sheer abundance of talent there can hardly be a writer alive who surpasses V. S. Naipaul." The New York Times Book Review
Dewey Decimal
823/.914 B
Synopsis
In 1948, at the age of 18, V.S. Naipaul left home on a scholarship furnished by the government of Trinidad. Following his first airplane ride, and a two-week journey by steamer, he found himself in Oxford, England, a world that could not have been more unlike the one he longed to escape, the one to which he would never really return.This startling collection of letters between the young Naipaul and his family, written while he was up at Oxford, allow us, as nothing previously published has, to enter the intimacy of his formative years. It is a moving story of family members oceans apart, clinging to one another against the sadness of dislocation and isolation: the young Naipaul, desperate not for a degree but to become a writer; his beloved sister Kamla, anxious and bewildered, away at school in India; and his melancholy father, the seeds of whose thwarted aspirations as a writer would bear fruit in the singular achievement of his son. Of him, Naipaul would write, "what we are, he has made us."Alongside this poignant family drama is the tale of a young man out in the world, seeing London and Paris, longing for love, for success and recognition, suffering material want of his own, powerless to assuage that of his loved ones. And it is also the story of one writer's beginnings, ending triumphantly with the publication of his first novel, as we witness the flowering of one of the great literary geniuses of the century.
LC Classification Number
PR9272.9.N32Z48 2000
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