Half a Life
by Naipaul, V.S. |Naipaul, V. S
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VERY GOOD in VERY GOOD jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0375407375
- ISBN 13
- 9780375407376
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About This Item
Knopf, 2001. 1ST. HARDBOUND. VERY GOOD in VERY GOOD jacket. 2ND. 7 X 9 X 1. pp. 224. ISBN 10 0375407375 ISBN 13 9780375407376 Publisher Knopf Place Of Publication New York Date Published 2001 Keywords EAST INDIANS, ENGLAND PORTUGAL, COLONIES AFRICA, LONDON Size 8vo-over 7? -9? tall HAS A PERSONAL INSCRIPTION. Half a Life finds the veteran Booker and Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul on familiar territory, blending autobiography and fiction in an exploration of the half lives of individuals brought up in the English colonies and educated in metropolitan cities. Naipaul's protagonist is Willie Somerset Chandran, named after Somerset Maugham's encounter with Willie's father in the 1930s while traveling to get material for a novel about spirituality. Willie travels to England for his education, where he becomes part of the special, passing bohemian-immigrant life of London of the late 1950s.
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- BookQuest (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 70122
- Title
- Half a Life
- Author
- Naipaul, V.S. |Naipaul, V. S
- Format/Binding
- HARDBOUND
- Book Condition
- Used - VERY GOOD in VERY GOOD jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1ST
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0375407375
- ISBN 13
- 9780375407376
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- East Indians / Colonies / Fiction / Authors / Social classes / Interpersonal relations / Regret / Large type books / Portuguese colonies / New York Times reviewed / 18.07 English literature outside Europe and the USA /
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