Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket; Signed by Author
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Size: 8vo
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000, New York
ISBN: 0375407308

[Book #14519]

An attractive First Edition/First Printing in Fine condition in alike dustjacket, SIGNED by author V. S. Naipaul directly on the front flyleaf;

After leaving his homeland of Trinidad at the age of 17 to pursue an education at Oxford, "Vido" Naipaul carried on a faithful correspondence with his father for four years. Father and son candidly conversed about life, loneliness and hardships, and they encouraged each other to persevere with their writing. Seepersand Naipaul's aspirations went unrealized, but Vido's triumphant career vindicates his father's sacrifice