Before you leave...
Take 20% off your first order
20% off
Enter the code below at checkout to get 20% off your first order
Half a Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375707285)
Vendor:
V. S. Naipaul
Product type:
Books
- $15.00
$15.00- $15.00
- Unit price
- per
Subtotal:
$15.00
Description
xNATIONAL 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.
Author: V. S. Naipaul
ISBN-10: 037570728X
ISBN-13: 9780375707285
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 10/08/2002
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.16w x 0.60d
Review Citation(s):
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.
Author: V. S. Naipaul
ISBN-10: 037570728X
ISBN-13: 9780375707285
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 10/08/2002
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.16w x 0.60d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 11/03/2002 pg. 28
BookPage 11/01/2002 pg. 19
By V. S. Naipaul
xV.S. NAIPAUL was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession. His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, The Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now. In 1990, V.S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He died in 2018.
Recently Viewed Products
- Choosing a selection results in a full page refresh.