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Miguel Street
by Naipaul, V. S
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0140033025
- ISBN 13
- 9780140033021
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
London, UK: Penguin Group, 1977. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Penguin Group, London, 1977. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Cover illustration by Francesca Pezilloi. Clean and unmarked cover with light wear to edges, no creases. Pages toned, more so along edges, quite clean and free from any markings. Glued binding solid and tight, all pages intact. Amusing portraits of the characteristic inhabitants of a street in a poor neighbourhood on Trinidad, some funny, some sad, their culture and speech patterns-- seen through the eyes of the author. 172 pages. 7.75" x 5". 1977, Penguin Group, London, UK
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.
Reviews
On Apr 26 2009, Degrasse said:
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
- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027550
- Title
- Miguel Street
- Author
- Naipaul, V. S
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0140033025
- ISBN 13
- 9780140033021
- Publisher
- Penguin Group
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1977
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Keywords
- TRINIDAD THE CARIBBEAN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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