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Half a Life: A Novel

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Half a Life: A Novel

by NAIPAUL, V. S

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ISBN 10
037570728X
ISBN 13
9780375707285
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New York: Vintage International / Random House. Near Fine. 2002. Softcover. 037570728X . A softcover edition of V. S. Naipaul's 2001 novel, which is the story of his Willie Chandran character. Chandran is a writer who travels from India to London and eventually to East Africa. This work is a prequel to the author's "Magic Seeds." --- In wraps with image of green-lensed eyeglasses to front panel. --- A clean, bright, newish copy but with retailer's back panel sticker.; Small Octavo - 7-1/2 to 8 in. tall; (10), 211 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
Bluebird Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
84554
Title
Half a Life: A Novel
Author
NAIPAUL, V. S
Format/Binding
Softcover
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
037570728X
ISBN 13
9780375707285
Publisher
Vintage International / Random House
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2002
Keywords
037570728X

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