TY  - BOOK
AU  - Naipaul,V.S.
TI  - Half a life
SN  - 9780330485173
AV  - PR9272.9.N32 H55 2001
U1  - 823.914 N155f 2002 20
PY  - 2001///
CY  - New York
PB  - Picador
KW  - East Indians
KW  - England
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Colonies
KW  - Authors
KW  - Portugal
KW  - Africa
KW  - London (England)
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - lcsh
N1  - DELL
N2  - "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 issued from 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; This is what happens as he tries to defeat 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. And this is what happens when he returns with her - carried along, really - to her home in Africa, to live, until the last doomed days of colonialism, yet another life not his own."--BOOK JACKET
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