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Miguel Street

by V. S. Naipaul

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"A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ''Slum!'' because he could see no more." But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidad''s capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There''s... Read more
"A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ''Slum!'' because he could see no more." But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidad''s capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There''s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build "the thing without a name." There''s Man-man, who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion, and the dreaded Big Foot, the bully with glass tear ducts. There''s the lovely Mrs. Hereira, in thrall to her monstrous husband. In this tender, funny early novel, V. S. Naipaul renders their lives (and the legends their neighbors construct around them) with Dickensian verve and Chekhovian compassion.Set during World War II and narrated by an unnamed-but precociously observant-neighborhood boy, Miguel Street is a work of mercurial mood shifts, by turns sweetly melancholy and anarchically funny. It overflows with life on every page. Less

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File size7.9x5.1x0.6inches
Print pages224
PublisherVintage
Publication date July 1, 2002
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780375713873
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V. S. Naipaul
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V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. His novels include A ...

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