| Between Father and Son: Family Letters Contributor(s): Naipaul, V. S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375707263 ISBN-13: 9780375707261 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $11.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2001 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Literary Collections | Letters - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 99031089 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.2" W x 8.04" (0.58 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Ethnic Orientation - Indian - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: At seventeen, V.S. Naipaul wanted to follow no other profession but writing. Awarded a scholarship by the Trinidadian government, he set out to attend Oxford, where he encountered a vastly different world from the one he yearned to leave behind. Separated from his family by continents, and grappling with depression, financial strain, loneliness, and dislocation, Vido bridged the distance with a faithful correspondence that began shortly before the young man's two-week journey to England and ended soon after his father's death four years later. Here, for the first time, we have the opportunity to read this profoundly moving correspondence, which illuminates 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. |