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Between father and son
family letters
By Naipaul, V. S. & Aitken, Gillon R.
- ISBN
- 978-0-37540-730-7
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred Knopf, 2000.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on January 1, 2000
In 1949, at age 17, Naipaul left Trinidad for Oxford University. Here, Aitken has collected Naipaul's correspondences with his family from those years. The letters provide a lively account of Naipaul's evolution as a writer--"I am afraid I have become a writer," he declares at one point--but they also reveal him to be an eccentric, arrogant, and self-ab...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
