Half a Life
de NAIPAUL, V.S
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa blanda
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine /No Jacket
- Librería
-
Hadley, Massachusetts, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
(London): Picador. (2001). The advance reading copy. Very slight crown bump, else fine in wrappers, with a color photocopy of the cover art laid in. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine.
Sinopsis
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 were a product of 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. He buries his 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. Together they return to her home to live out the last doomed days of colonialism, while Willie remains a passive bystander in yet another life that is not his own. (Summary from Publisher-Random House)
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Detalles
- Librería
- Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 018991
- Título
- Half a Life
- Autor
- NAIPAUL, V.S
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Softcover
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Editorial
- Picador
- Lugar de publicación
- (London)
- Fecha de publicación
- (2001)
Términos de venta
Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA
All books are First Editions or First American Editions in dust jackets unless otherwise noted and are returnable within 30 days.
Sobre el vendedor
Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
Hadley, Massachusetts
Sobre Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA
We deal in rare books, specializing in modern literary first editions. We regularly issue catalogs of Modern Literature and less regularly issue catalogs of Native American Literature, the Literature of the Vietnam War and the 1960s, and Nature Writing. Ken is a former President of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. We maintain an office in Hadley, Massachusetts and welcome visitors by appointment. We are always interested in buying rare books, manuscripts, or related material in any of our areas of specialty and are happy to hear from anyone offering such items to us.
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- First Edition
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