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Half a Life
by Naipaul, V.S
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0375407375
- ISBN 13
- 9780375407376
- Seller
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Foster, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
Knopf, 2001-10-16. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x1. Signed by Author. Alfred A. Knopf; New York, 2001. Hardcover. First American Edition. Signed by author directly on title page. A Very Good, black boards and red cloth spine with gilt lettering on front board and spine, binding firm, deckle fore-edge, mild spine lean, trace rubbing to board and spine edges, in a Near Fine, trace handling/scuff marks to panels, mild edge/corner wear, mild sunning to flap margins, ISBN barcode sticker bottom rear Mylar, Mylar protected, Dust wrapper. A nice, clean and unmarked copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches]. 211pp. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Lavendier Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU1035924
- Title
- Half a Life
- Author
- Naipaul, V.S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375407375
- ISBN 13
- 9780375407376
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001-10-16
- Size
- 8x5x1
- X weight
- 14 oz
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