{"product_id":"half-a-life-9780375707285","title":"Half a Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL 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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A masterpiece.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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, \u003ci\u003eHalf a Life\u003c\/i\u003e represents the pinnacle of Naipaul's career.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/08\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375707285\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.96h x 5.16w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/03\/2002 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2002 pg. 19\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"V. S. Naipaul","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43067613118645,"sku":"9780375707285","price":12.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_727182c1-5f6c-4e4f-acd6-8967565bda2c.jpg?v=1690861427","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/half-a-life-9780375707285","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}