Half A Life
by Naipaul, V. S
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- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0330485180
- ISBN 13
- 9780330485180
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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
- Books in Bulgaria (BG)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11331
- Title
- Half A Life
- Author
- Naipaul, V. S
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0330485180
- ISBN 13
- 9780330485180
- Publisher
- Picador
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2001
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- Fireside Reads;
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