family letters Naipaul, V. S. creator Aiken, Gillon R text New York Knopf 2000 monographic eng 297 p. "In 1950, after winning a scholarship from the government of Trinidad, V.S. Naipaul, aged seventeen, left home for the first time. Following a two-week journey by steamer, he arrived in Oxford, England, a world utterly removed from the one he had longed to escape and to which he would never really return. This collection of letters gives us an intimate view of Naipaul's formative years."- D., 7/2000 Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad)--Correspondence Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad)--Family Authors, Trinidadian--20th centruy--Family relationships Authors, Trinidadian--20th century correesondence Fathers and sons--Trinidad B 0-375-40730-8 000706 20250709132704.0