Half a Life
Download Half a Life Free ePub - IHalf a LifeI finds the veteran Booker Prizewinning novelist VS Naipaul on familiar territory blending autobiography and fiction in an exploration of the half lives of individuals brought up in the English colonies and educated in the metropolitan centre p Naipauls protagonist is Willie Somerset Chandran named after Somerset Maughams encounter with Willies father in the 1930s whilst travelling to get material for a novel about spirituality Willie travels to England for his education where he becomes part of the special passing bohemianimmigrant life of London of the late 1950s Willie soon realises that his colonial background allows him to write short stories for wellmeaning white liberals Willie soon begins to understand that he was free to present himself as he wished and that he could remake himself and his past through his writing The effect is suffocating rather than liberating and he marries a vaguely sketched girl or young woman from an African country who has read his one published book Willie begins another half life in colonial Mozambique where he soon tires of the domestic and sexual tedium of plantation life and flees to Germany mournfully reflecting that I have been hiding for too longp This is classic Naipaul with its effortless dissection of the damaging personal consequences of postwar decolonisation but its virtue seems it primary vice as the novel feels like a conflation of several earlier Naipaul books including IThe Mimic MenI and the brilliant IA Bend in the RiverI Consequently some readers may well find that IHalf a LifeI reads more like half a novel IJerry BrottonI
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| Book's Title | Half a Life |
| Author | V S Naipaul |
| ISBN-10 | 0330485172 |
| Category | Genres |
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| Customer's Rating | 4.6 stars of 5 from 39 Readers |
| Filename | half-a-life.pdf |
| Filesize | 29.7 MB (current server's speed is 22.53 Mbps |
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