Half a Life
V. S. Naipaul$12.75
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, the Nobel Prize-winning author produced his finest novel, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity. "A masterpiece." --Los Angeles Times Book Review
The son of a Brahmin ascetic and his lower-caste wife, Willie Chandran grows up sensing the hollowness at the core of his father's self-denial and vowing to live more authentically. That search takes him to the immigrant and literary bohemias of 1950s London, to a facile and unsatisfying career as a writer, and at last to a decaying Portugese colony in East Africa, where he finds a happiness he will then be compelled to betray. Brilliantly orchestrated, at once elegiac and devastating in its portraits of colonial grandeur and pretension, Half a Life represents the pinnacle of Naipaul's career.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10/08/2002
ISBN: 9780375707285
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.16w x 0.60d
Review Citations: New York Times 11/03/2002 pg. 28
BookPage 11/01/2002 pg. 19
The son of a Brahmin ascetic and his lower-caste wife, Willie Chandran grows up sensing the hollowness at the core of his father's self-denial and vowing to live more authentically. That search takes him to the immigrant and literary bohemias of 1950s London, to a facile and unsatisfying career as a writer, and at last to a decaying Portugese colony in East Africa, where he finds a happiness he will then be compelled to betray. Brilliantly orchestrated, at once elegiac and devastating in its portraits of colonial grandeur and pretension, Half a Life represents the pinnacle of Naipaul's career.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10/08/2002
ISBN: 9780375707285
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.16w x 0.60d
Review Citations: New York Times 11/03/2002 pg. 28
BookPage 11/01/2002 pg. 19