LETTERS BETWEEN A FATHER AND SON - V.S. Naipaul
With an introduction and notes by Gillon Aitken.
KORTE INHOUD
Writing to his eldest son, Vidia, at Oxford in 1950, Seepersad Naipaul observed: "Your letters are charming in their spontaneity. If you could write me letters about things and people--especially people--at Oxford, I could compile them in a book." Nearly 50 years later, the father's desire has been fulfilled by his son with the publication of V.S. Naipaul's Letters Between a Father and Son. The collection covers the period between Naipaul's departure from his native Trinidad in 1950 to study at Oxford to the untimely death of his father in 1953 at the age of 47. Alongside the letters between father and son are those between Naipaul and his older sister, Kamla, a student at the Benares Hindu University in India, who is advised by her then-17-year-old brother to "watch your personal effects carefully; the Indians are a thieving lot."
At the heart of the book lie Naipaul's undergraduate life at Oxford and his father's deeply moving support for his son as he strives to maintain his own writing career while Naipaul...
At the heart of the book lie Naipaul's undergraduate life at Oxford and his father's deeply moving support for his son as he strives to maintain his own writing career while Naipaul...
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1999Uitgever: Little, Brown&Co.333 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0316639885ISBN-13: 9780316639880Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Hardback, linnen gebonden met stofomslag, zo goed als nieuw. Mooi ex. Engelstalig.; 1999; first edition; Little, Brown and Company; xiii, 333 pagina's; Titel: Letters between a Father and Son. - With an introduction and notes by Gillon Aitken.; Ref: 227943 / H24P713B
