London: Picador. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2001. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0330485164 . A handsome first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket; Willie Chandran's father rejected his Brahmin heritage to marry a lower caste woman, much to his regret. As an adult, Willie contrived a new identity as a bohemian writer in 1950's London. At the brink of exhaustion, he is rescued by the love of a woman who carries him to her home in Africa where he stays for 18 years, living a life not quite his own; 8vo; [viii], 227, [5] pages .

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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: Books Tell You Why, Inc. (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 29715
Title: Half A Life - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Author: Naipaul, V. S
Format/Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0330485164
ISBN 13: 9780330485166
Publisher: Picador
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2001
Keywords: Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print
Bookseller catalogs: Legendary Authors / Naipaul, V.S;

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