The Resource Half a life, V.S. Naipaul
Half a life, V.S. Naipaul
Resource Information
The item Half a life, V.S. Naipaul represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Half a life, V.S. Naipaul represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V.S. Naipaul has produced his finest novel to date, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity. The 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 Portuguese 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, Half a Life represents the pinnacle of Naipaul's career
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 6 audio discs (approximately 7 hr.)
- Note
-
- Unabridged
- Compact discs
- Isbn
- 9781538555040
- Label
- Half a life
- Title
- Half a life
- Statement of responsibility
- V.S. Naipaul
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V.S. Naipaul has produced his finest novel to date, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity. The 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 Portuguese 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, Half a Life represents the pinnacle of Naipaul's career
- Cataloging source
- AU@
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1932-2018
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Naipaul, V. S.
- Dewey number
- 823.92
- Form of composition
- not applicable
- Format of music
- not applicable
- Literary text for sound recordings
- other
- Music parts
- not applicable
- PerformerNote
- Read by Neil Shah
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Shah, Neil
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Families
- East Indians
- Authors
- Portugal
- London (England)
- Africa
- Transposition and arrangement
- not applicable
- Label
- Half a life, V.S. Naipaul
- Note
-
- Unabridged
- Compact discs
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Carrier category
- audio disc
- Carrier category code
-
- sd
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Configuration of playback channels
- stereophonic
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
-
- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 12 cm
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
- Extent
- 6 audio discs (approximately 7 hr.)
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781538555040
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- mass produced
- Kind of material
- plastic with metal
- Media category
- audio
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- s
- Other physical details
- digital
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
- sound disc
- Speed
- 1.4m. per second (discs)
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)1055421205
- (OCoLC)on1055421205
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
- Label
- Half a life, V.S. Naipaul
- Note
-
- Unabridged
- Compact discs
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Carrier category
- audio disc
- Carrier category code
-
- sd
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Configuration of playback channels
- stereophonic
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
-
- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 12 cm
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
- Extent
- 6 audio discs (approximately 7 hr.)
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781538555040
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- mass produced
- Kind of material
- plastic with metal
- Media category
- audio
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- s
- Other physical details
- digital
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
- sound disc
- Speed
- 1.4m. per second (discs)
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)1055421205
- (OCoLC)on1055421205
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
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