{"product_id":"half-a-life-a-novel","title":"Half a Life: A Novel","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eHalf a Life: A Novel\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eV. S. Naipaul\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780375707285\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eVintage\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2002\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e224\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eModerate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Half a Life: A Novel | V. S. Naipaul | Paperback | 9780375707285 | Used: Good | Back Stacks E 1743137","offer_id":48180319453336,"sku":"1743137","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/51YHCvzJLxL.jpg?v=1772222558","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/half-a-life-a-novel","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}