Complex sentence: Through the summer and autumn of 1953 Naipaul was financially strapped, his prospects for employment in frugal post-war Britain unpromising, his applications to jobs overseas repeatedly rejected, and his attempts at writing as yet haphazard.
Split into simpler sentences: Through the summer and autumn of 1953 Naipaul was financially strapped. His prospects for employment in frugal post-war Britain were unpromising, his applications to jobs overseas repeatedly rejected, and his attempts at writing as yet haphazard.