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Between Father and Son: Family Letters
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Between Father and Son: Family Letters Paperback - 2001

by Naipaul, V. S

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A collection of letters between noted emigre writer V.S. Naipaul, living in England, and his father living in Trinidad are presented, illuminating the relationship between a sacrificing father and his determined son as they encourage each other to persevere with their writing.

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  • Title Between Father and Son: Family Letters
  • Author Naipaul, V. S
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage, New York
  • Date 2001-03-13
  • Features Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0375707263_new
  • ISBN 9780375707261 / 0375707263
  • Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.04 x 5.2 x 0.7 in (20.42 x 13.21 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Ethnic Orientation: Indian
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99031089
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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From the publisher

V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950.  After four years at Oxford he began to write, and since then he has followed no other profession.  He is the author of more than twenty books of fiction and nonfiction and the recipient of numerous honors, including the Booker Prize in 1971 and a knighthood for services to literature n 1990. He lives in Wiltshire, England.

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I wonder what is the matter with this typewriter.

From the jacket flap

V. S. Naipaul is perhaps the most famous emigre writer since Vladimir Nabokov, and though he always spoke and wrote English, his self-imposed exile to England from his native Trinidad represented a cultural shift as profound as learning to think in another language. In this moving, novel-like correspondence, we witness the great writer's early transformation from an expatriate adrift to a world-renowned man of letters.
The letters collected here illuminate with unalloyed candor the relationship between a sacrificing father and his determined son as they encourage each other to persevere with their writing. For though his father's literary aspirations would go unrealized, Naipaul's triumphant career would ultimately vindicate his beloved mentor's legacy.

Media reviews

“An extraordinary rich correspondence.” –The New York Times Book Review

"A telling portrait of the artist as a young man [and] a fascinating map to the autobiographical underpinnings of what is arguably Mr. Naipaul's finest novel, A House for Mr. Biswas."- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"A narrative that never palls: We are enthralled as by a compelling epistolary novel."- The Washington Post Book World

"Shocking...Captivating...The Naipaul family letters speak eloquently of loneliness and deracination, but at the heart of the book is a very moving story about becoming a writer."- The Boston Globe

Citations

  • New York Times, 03/18/2001, Page 24

About the author

V.S. NAIPAUL was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession.

His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, The Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now.

In 1990, V.S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He died in 2018.

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