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Half A Life

by V.S. Naipaul

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Alfred a Knopf, 2001. First American Edition. Hardback, Dustjacket. Like New, slight wear to cover.

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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
Rocking Chair Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
768839
Title
Half A Life
Author
V.S. Naipaul
Format/Binding
Hardback, Dustjacket
Book Condition
New Like New, slight wear to cover
Edition
First American Edition
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0375407375
ISBN 13
9780375407376
Publisher
Alfred a Knopf
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2001
Pages
211

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