Summary
A magnet to the poets, philosophers, troubadours, and misfits who inhabit Port of Spain, Miguel Street is a place where tales of glory and debauchery vie with declarations of love and anger, where neighborhood melodramas are scrutinized, and wisdom is meted out to everyone. These vignettes reflect the neighborhood where Naipaul grew up.
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"Life in Trinidad as described by Naipaul through the eyes of a 'street arab' in Miguel Street is enchanting, mysterious, varied and richly comic. His happy-go-lucky community, in what to the stranger's eyes would be a slum, abounds in eccentric characters: indeed everyone is eccentric, and tolerant of other eccentrics."
-- Scotsman (Edinburgh)
"His characters are eccentric, amoral, and presented with an air of absolute normality."
-- Guardian (London)
"MIGUEL STREET is the Bowery, the Tenderloin, the Catfish Row of Trinidad's Port of Spain-its citizens a loony multitude whose knavery often arises from real pathos and tragedy." -- George McMichael
-- San Francisco Chronicle
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Heinemann
Published date: 1974
Size: 5 x 7.5 inches
Weight: 0.3 pounds
Pages: 222
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