Miguel Street.
by Naipaul, V.S
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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About This Item
London: Andre Deutsch, 1959. Miguel Street is the Bowery, the Tenderloin, and the Catfish Row of Trinidads Port of Spainits citizens a loony multitude whose knavery often rises from real kinship with pathos and tragedy. . . . Naipaul is at his best in these swift caricatures of human depravity" (San Francisco Chronicle).
Synopsis
Miguel Street is a semi-autobiographical novel by V. S. Naipaul set in wartime Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Naipaul wrote it while employed at the BBC using a BBC typewriter and "rustle-free paper. " Miguel Street won the 1961 Somerset Maugham Award.
Reviews
On Apr 26 2009, Degrasse said:
My son uses Miguel Street in school as a literature text book. He finds the book very interesting and fun to read.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3544
- Title
- Miguel Street.
- Author
- Naipaul, V.S
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Andre Deutsch
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- Nobel, signed first edition, V.S. Naipaul
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Raptis Rare Books
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Palm Beach, Florida
About Raptis Rare Books
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