New York: Knopf, 2001. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Second Knopf Printing Before Publication, 2001. Hardcover Book in Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. Naipaul, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and one of the world's greatest travel writers, writes a blend of fact and fiction, autobiography, history, imagination--this is the story of Willie Chandran, whose father, heeding the call of Mahatma Ghandi, turned his back on his brahmin heritage and married a women of low caste--and the consequences of such a union. 211 pages. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. 2001, Knopf, New York.

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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: The Parnassus BookShop (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 027001
Title: Half a Life: A Novel
Author: Naipaul, V. S
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0375407375
ISBN 13: 9780375407376
Publisher: Knopf
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2001
Size: 8vo - over 7
Keywords: EAST INDIANS, ENGLAND PORTUGAL, COLONIES AFRICA, LONDON
X weight: 0 oz

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