Miguel Street
by Naipaul, V.S
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good (-)/VG (+)
- Seller
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Long Beach, Washington, United States
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Synopsis
Miguel Street is a semi-autobiographical novel by V. S. Naipaul set in wartime Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Naipaul wrote it while employed at the BBC using a BBC typewriter and "rustle-free paper. " Miguel Street won the 1961 Somerset Maugham Award.
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My son uses Miguel Street in school as a literature text book. He finds the book very interesting and fun to read.
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Details
- Seller
- Independent Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 011234
- Title
- Miguel Street
- Author
- Naipaul, V.S
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good (-)
- Jacket Condition
- VG (+)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.S. Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Vanguard Press, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1959
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
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