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008			010508s2001 nyu 000 1 eng
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050	0	0	_aPR9272.9.N32 _bH55 2001
082			_220 _a823.914 N155f 2002
100	1		_aNaipaul, V. S. _q(Vidiadhar Surajprasad), _d1932- _92086
245	1	0	_aHalf a life / _cV.S. Naipaul.
250			_a1st American ed.
260			_aNew York : _bPicador, _c2001.
300			_a228 p. ; _c22 cm.
520	1		_a"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.
520	8		_aThis 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.
526			_aDELL
650		0	_aEast Indians _zEngland _vFiction. _92087
650		0	_aColonies _vFiction. _92088
650		0	_aAuthors _vFiction. _92089
651		0	_aPortugal _xColonies _zAfrica _vFiction. _92090
651		0	_aLondon (England) _vFiction. _91971
651		0	_aAfrica _vFiction. _91776
655		7	_aPsychological fiction. _2lcsh _91678
900			_bTOC
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