Half a Life
by Naipaul, V.S
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
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Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, United Kingdom: Picador, 2001. Hardcover book in Fine condition. Some very mild and light signs of handling to both book and the dustwrapper. Binding very tight. All corners sharp. Appears unread. Very clean internally. First printing. Signed by the author to the title page with no other inscriptions. An excellent, well preserved copy in very collectable condition.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Fine/Fine. FIRST IMPRESSION of FIRST EDIT.
Synopsis
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
- The Rare Book Shelf
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001460
- Title
- Half a Life
- Author
- Naipaul, V.S
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Picador
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 2001
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