βA stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say βSlum!β because he could see no more.β But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidadβs capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. Thereβs Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to bu
Miguel Street
β Scribed by V.S. Naipaul
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage International
- Year
- 2010;2002
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 94 KB
- Edition
- 1st Vintage International ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0307776573
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β¦ Synopsis
Bogart the bigamist, B. Wordsworth the poet, and Morgan the pyrotechnist are among the poor inhabitants of Miguel Street seen through the eyes of a fatherless boy growing up in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
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### Review ?One of the few contemporary writers of whom we can speak in terms of greatness.? ?Mel Gussow, *Newsday* ?Miguel Street is the Bowery, the Tenderloin, and the Catfish Row of Trinidad?s Port of Spain?its citizens a loony multitude whose knavery often rises from real kinship with pathos a
### Review ?One of the few contemporary writers of whom we can speak in terms of greatness.? ?Mel Gussow, *Newsday* ?Miguel Street is the Bowery, the Tenderloin, and the Catfish Row of Trinidad?s Port of Spain?its citizens a loony multitude whose knavery often rises from real kinship with pathos a
Bogart the bigamist, B. Wordsworth the poet, and Morgan the pyrotechnist are among the poor inhabitants of Miguel Street seen through the eyes of a fatherless boy growing up in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
### Review ?One of the few contemporary writers of whom we can speak in terms of greatness.? ?Mel Gussow, *Newsday* ?Miguel Street is the Bowery, the Tenderloin, and the Catfish Row of Trinidad?s Port of Spain?its citizens a loony multitude whose knavery often rises from real kinship with pathos a
### Review ?One of the few contemporary writers of whom we can speak in terms of greatness.? ?Mel Gussow, _Newsday_ ?Miguel Street is the Bowery, the Tenderloin, and the Catfish Row of Trinidad?s Port of Spain?its citizens a loony multitude whose knavery often rises from real kinship with pathos a