Letters Between a Father and Son por Naipaul, V.S - 1999

London: Little, Brown and Company, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Full brown cloth. xiii, 333 pp. Bookplate to front pastedown. Some slight warping to dust jacket, else fine. In 1950, just before his 18th birthday, V.S. Naipaul left his native Trinidad for the first time - to take up an Island scholarship at University College, Oxford. In 1953, aged 46, his father, a journalist with the Trinidad Guardian, died of a heart attack. Those three years saw an intense, and intensely human, correspondence between father and son, marked by great mutual reliance and affection, and by a shared literary ambition. It was a father's dream that his and his son's name might together appear on the title page of a book. This is that book, as rich and fine and moving a book of letters between father and son as any in the history of literature.