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Half a Life

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Half a Life

by Naipaul, V S

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9780330485173
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MacMillan, 2002. paperback. gebraucht, sehr gut Mängelexemplar, geringe Lagerspuren. 19,61 x 12,40 x 1,60.

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Half a Life is the story of Willie Chandran, whose father, heeding the call of Mahatma Gandhi, turned his back on his Brahmin heritage and married a woman of low caste–a disastrous union he would live to regret, as he would the children that were a product of it. When Willie reaches manhood, his flight from the travails of his mixed birth takes him from India to London, where, in the shabby haunts of immigrants and literary bohemians of the 1950s, he contrives a new identity. He buries his self-doubt in sexual adventures and in the struggle to become a writer–strivings that bring him to the brink of exhaustion, from which he is rescued, to his amazement, only by the love of a good woman.  Together they return to her home to live out the last doomed days of colonialism, while Willie remains a passive bystander in yet another life that is not his own. (Summary from Publisher-Random House)

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Half a Life
Author
Naipaul, V S
Format/Binding
Paperback
Book Condition
Used - gebraucht, sehr gut Mängelexemplar, geringe Lagerspuren
Quantity Available
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ISBN 10
0330485172
ISBN 13
9780330485173
Publisher
MacMillan
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
2002
Pages
300
Size
19,61 x 12,40 x 1,60

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