Miguel Street
V. S. Naipaul · 1959 CE · Short Story · Caribbean · Contemporary
A boy on a Port of Spain street through the war years watches his neighbours hold their positions: the carpenter spending years on a thing without a name, the poet composing one line a month, the sign painter, the man who beats his wife to a timetable. Every sketch is funny until its last paragraph turns it. Written first of Naipaul's books, published third, out of his father's newspaper stories.
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