Background
Theroux, Paul Edward was born on April 10, 1941 in Medford, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Albert Eugene and Anne (Dittami) Theroux.
( Paul Theroux, one of the world’s most popular authors, ...)
Paul Theroux, one of the world’s most popular authors, both for his travel books and his fiction, has produced an off-beat story of 1960s weirdos unlike anything he has ever written. During the time of Lyndon Johnson’s presidency, Herbie Gneiss is forced to leave college to get a job. His income from the Kant-Brake toy factory, which manufactures military toys for children, keeps his chocolate-loving mother from starvation. Mr. Gibbon, a patriotic veteran of three wars, also works at Kant-Brake. When Herbie is drafted, Mr. Gibbon falls in love with Herbie’s mother and they move in together at Miss Ball’s rooming house. Since Herbie is fighting for his country, Mr. Gibbon feels that he, too, should do something for his country and convinces Miss Ball and Mrs. Gneiss to join him in the venture. They decide to rob the Mount Holly Trust Company because it is managed by a small dark man who is probably a communist. There are some complications. Combine Donald E. Westlake with Abby Hoffman, add a bit of Gore Vidal at his most vitriolic, and you will have Murder in Mount Holly.
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(This collection of Theroux's short novels span his fictio...)
This collection of Theroux's short novels span his fictional world: from a pair of post-adolescent malcontents hiding from their future to a vulnerable ageing stripper and single mother who finds God. Theroux's characters struggle with indeterminate, and often cruel, destinies.
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( Jack Flowers knew he needed to shake things up when he ...)
Jack Flowers knew he needed to shake things up when he jumped into the Straits of Malacca and hitched a ride to Singapore. Deftly identifying the fastest route to fame along the seedy port, Jack starts hiring girls out to lonely tourists, sailors, bachelors — anyone with some loose change and a wandering eye — soon making enough money to open two pleasure palaces. But just as Jack is finally coming into his own, a shocking tumble toward the brink of death leaves him shaken, desperate to pull himself up to greatness. Depressed and vulnerable, he’s quick to do business with Edwin Shuck, a powerful American working to take down an unsuspecting general. Marked with Paul Theroux’s trademark biting humor and audacious prose, Saint Jack is a gripping work from an award-winning author.
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(Award-winning writer Paul Theroux explores the darker und...)
Award-winning writer Paul Theroux explores the darker underside of the community of expatriates in South-East Asia in his compelling and strikingly honest novel "Saint Jack". Jack Flowers, saint or sinner, caught a passing bumboat into Singapore and got a job as a water-clerk to a Chinese ship chandler. Now, on the side, he offers girls (indeed 'anything, anything at all') to tourists, sailors, residents and expatriates, but he is haunted by his lack of worldly success and his fifty-three years weight heavily on him. So when he agrees to act as blackmailer for the faintly sinister American Edwin Shuck in a plot against a general from Vietnam, he has high, not to mention wild, hopes of triumph. These are the outrageous confessions of an ingenious conman in the seedy and unforgettable world of expatriates amidst imperial ruins. "A witty, subtle, often moving self-portrait of a memorable rogue". ("Observer"). "Theroux's prose it rich, his perceptions so many-layered, he involves us in a world that extends well beyond the physical limits of his novel". ("The Times"). American travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his novels and collected short stories, "My Other Life", "The Collected Stories", "My Secret History", "The Lower River", "The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro", "A Dead Hand", "Millroy the Magician", "The Elephanta Suite", "The Consul's File", "The Family Arsenal", "The Mosquito Coast", and his works of non-fiction, including the iconic "The Great Railway Bazaar" are available from Penguin.
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("The Family Arsenal" is a darkly comic novel of warped mo...)
"The Family Arsenal" is a darkly comic novel of warped morals and disillusionment in South London by the award-winning writer Paul Theroux. In South London terrorists plot...Hood, a renegade American diplomat, envisions a new urban order in the opium for of his room. He flirts with terrorists, hoping to win their trust and respect. Mayo, his sometime bedmate, has just made a political statement - stealing a "Flemish" painting and negotiating publicity over this act with "The Times". Murf the bomb-maker leaves his mark in red, scrawling 'Arsenal Rule' across half the city's walls, whilst his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Brodie, bombs Euston and afterwards worries about her complexion. A novel of London lowlife and the dispossessed, and a powerful and violent thriller of disenchanted people. "A pleasure ...with Theroux the thrills are never cheap and obvious". ("Guardian"). "One of the most evocative, intelligently crafted suspense novels in years - like the early fiction of Graham Greene...London has rarely looked dingier or more sinister ...an assured success". ("The New York Times"). "Brilliant and haunting ...the ingenious of the plot, the London setting ...the trapped and interwoven people, and the balefully witty observation, have an undistracted force". ("Observer"). American travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his novels and collected short stories, "My Other Life", "The Collected Stories", "My Secret History", "The Lower River", "The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro", "A Dead Hand", "Millroy the Magician", "The Elephanta Suite", "Saint Jack", "The Consul's File", "The Mosquito Coast", and his works of non-fiction, including the iconic "The Great Railway Bazaar" are available from Penguin.
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( “Never a dull moment . . . Vivid and deft.” — New York ...)
“Never a dull moment . . . Vivid and deft.” — New York Review of Books Maude Pratt is a legend, a photographer famous for her cutting-edge techniques and uncanny ability to strip away the masks of the world’s most recognizable celebrities and luminaries. Now in her seventies, Maude has been in the public eye since the 1920s, and her unparalleled portfolio includes intimate portraits of Gertrude Stein, Hemingway, and Picasso. While Maude possesses a singular capability to expose the inner lives of her subjects, she is obsessive about protecting her own, hiding her deepest secret in the “picture palace” of her memory. But when a young archivist comes to stay in Maude’s Cape Cod home and begins sorting through her fifty years of work, Maude is forced to face her past and come to terms, at last, with the tragedies she’s buried. “A breathtaking tale . . . Intangibly, intricately brilliant.” — Telegraph (UK)
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(At Christmas time two orphans and their guardian search t...)
At Christmas time two orphans and their guardian search through snowbound London for their missing landlord, even though he has threatened to evict them.
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( In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and bri...)
In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they've left. Fleeing from an America he sees as mired in materialism and conformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer life. But his utopian experiment takes a dark turn when his obsessions lead the family toward unimaginable danger.
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(Contemporary / American English Allie Fox hates the Unite...)
Contemporary / American English Allie Fox hates the United States and he hates the twentieth century. He takes his wife and children to the jungle in Honduras to find a new, simpler way of living. But things go wrong, and their lives become much worse and more frightening than anything back home.
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(Un personaje extraordinario, Allie Fox, genio autodidacta...)
Un personaje extraordinario, Allie Fox, genio autodidacta, inventor visionario y fanático adversario del american way of life, mantiene despóticamente a su familia bajo la fascinación de sus extravagantes ideas e iniciativasUn personaje extraordinario, Allie Fox, genio autodidacta, inventor visionario y fanático adversario
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("Remarkable... Powerful... Mesmerizing... Lyrical." Susan...)
"Remarkable... Powerful... Mesmerizing... Lyrical." Susan Cheever Welcome to the America of the 21st century. The O-Zone is a forbidding land of nuclear waste, mutants, and aliens. Except for one place that is a beautiful oasis amidst the destruction. When two aliens are shot that look suspiciously human, Hooper Allbright, disurbed by the memories of those he once loved, goes back down into the O-Zone to try to reach the people he lost, though they may be unreachable by now.... "Smart, witty, grotesque, and brutal." THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
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(Brilliantly written, erotically charged, My Secret Histor...)
Brilliantly written, erotically charged, My Secret History is Paul Theroux's tour de force. It is the story of Andre Parent, a writer, a world traveller, a lover of every kind of woman he chances to meet in a life as varied as a man can lead. It begins with his days as a Massachusetts altar boy, when his first furtive sexual encounter introduces him to the thrills of leading a double life. As a teenaged lifeguard, Andre finds himself caught between the attentions of a beautiful young student and an amorous older woman. Soon he is in Africa, where the local women are numerous, easy, and free. And as the boy becomes a man he turns his attention to writing, which brings him fame, and a wife, who may finally cause him to know himself. But not before he sets up his most dangerous secret life, one that any man might envy, but that could cost Andre Parent the delicate balance that makes him who he is.
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(In "My Secret History", award-winning writer Paul Theroux...)
In "My Secret History", award-winning writer Paul Theroux offers the reader an exciting insight into the double-life of Andre Parent in six compelling snapshots. "Written with a rare intensity of both intelligence and feeling...a superbly realistic evocation of the journeys (both dark and comical) of the human heart". (Salman Rushdie, "Observer"). "Nothing on the shelf has quite prepared the reader of "My Secret History"...Parent saunters into the book aged fifteen, shouldering a .22 Mossberg rifle as earlier, more innocent American heroes used to tote a fishing pole. In his pocket is a paperback translation of Dante's Inferno...he is a creature of naked and unquenchable ego, greedy for sex, money, experience, another life". (Jonathan Raban, "Observer"). "Theroux's best creation, a character who is honest enough to know that he wants it both ways: to be the lover and also the solitary observer who betrays his loves by turning them into stories". ("Time"). "Theroux's best fiction to date...combines the surfaces of memoir and travelogue with cunning fiction". ("Sunday Times"). "Sharp, exact, very evocative...both disturbing and entertaining". (Anthony Burgess, "Independent"). American travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his novels and collected short stories, "My Other Life", "The Collected Stories", "The Lower River", "The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro", "A Dead Hand", "Millroy the Magician", "The Elephanta Suite", "Saint Jack", "The Consul's File", "The Family Arsenal", "The Mosquito Coast", and his works of non-fiction, including the iconic "The Great Railway Bazaar" are available from Penguin.
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("Riveting...CHICAGO LOOP is an icy tale brilliantly imagi...)
"Riveting...CHICAGO LOOP is an icy tale brilliantly imagined." THE BOSTON GLOBE He knifes silently through the shadows of the steamy Chicago summer night, prowling for lonely souls who need his help. The desperate come to him, answering his ads with promises of romantic evenings and possibly a future, never suspecting that they are the prey, chosen to statiate a twisted sexual desire. Parker Jagoda is also a successful businessman with a wife, a child, and a house in the suburbs--respectable, health-conscious, and polite. Nobody knows about his jagged double life, his dark, hungry obsessions. He has fooled everyone except those who gasp their last dying scream. And, of course, he has not fooled himself--which may be the only glimmer of hope left inside the darkest of hearts.... From the Paperback edition.
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(Fourteen-year-old Jilly Farina was enthralled with Millro...)
Fourteen-year-old Jilly Farina was enthralled with Millroy the Magician at the Barnstable County Fair. After all, he once turned a girl from the audience into a glass of milk and drank her, But when Jilly stepped into the wickerwork coffin during a performance, she had no idea he would transform her dreary life into something truly magical, and a touch bizarre. For Millroy was no ordinary magician. He could smell the future, and Jilly was going to be part of it. Yet not even Millroy could foresee how far determination and a dream could take him, as he and his new young assistant hit the road -and the airwaves -- to save America's unhealthy appetite and floundering soul.... From the Trade Paperback edition.
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( In this wickedly satiric romp, Paul Theroux captures th...)
In this wickedly satiric romp, Paul Theroux captures the essence of Hawaii as it has never been depicted. The novel's narrator, a down-on-his-luck writer, escapes to Waikiki and soon finds himself the manager of the Hotel Honolulu, a low-rent establishment a few blocks off the beach. Honeymooners, vacationers, wanderers, mythomaniacs, soldiers, and families all check in to the hotel. Like the Canterbury pilgrims, every guest has come in search of something -- sun, love, happiness, objects of unnameable longing -- and everyone has a story. By turns hilarious, ribald, tender, and tragic, HOTEL HONOLULU offers a unique glimpse of the psychological landscape of an American paradise.
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(The story of Hotel Honolulu, a run-down hotel teeming wit...)
The story of Hotel Honolulu, a run-down hotel teeming with life (most of it low), on an island paradise tarnished by greed and lust. Eighty rooms, eighty stories, and one superbly fresh, scathingly witty novel from a remarkable writer. (from the blurb)
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(Newly married and having recently taken over the manageme...)
Newly married and having recently taken over the management of a hotel in Honolulu, a former writer is drawn into the chaotic lives of his guests and into the distinctive customs and rhythms of the distant island. As witness to the many contrasting, and often ribald, chronicles of the hotel's characters, he ultimately finds personal salvation through returning to writing once again. The result is this novel in eighty distinct episodes, a Chaucerian sequence of strange pilgrims and just-as-strange islanders confronting each other, and their fate, in the rooms of the seedy hotel.
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(In een derderangs hotel op Hawaii komen mensen van divers...)
In een derderangs hotel op Hawaii komen mensen van diverse pluimage bijeen. Zij worden genadeloos maar met gevoel voor humor, beschreven door een schrijver, die daar als hotelmanager werkt.
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( From the New York Times best-selling author Paul Therou...)
From the New York Times best-selling author Paul Theroux, Blinding Light is a slyly satirical novel of manners and mind expansion. Slade Steadman, a writer who has lost his chops, sets out for the Ecuadorian jungle with his ex-girlfriend in search of inspiration and a rare hallucinogen. The drug, once found, heightens both his powers of perception and his libido, but it also leaves him with an unfortunate side effect: periodic blindness. Unable to resist the insights that enable him to write again, Steadman spends the next year of his life in thrall to his psychedelic muse and his erotic fantasies, with consequences that are both ecstatic and disastrous.
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( From the New York Times best-selling author Paul Therou...)
From the New York Times best-selling author Paul Theroux, Blinding Light is a slyly satirical novel of manners and mind expansion. Slade Steadman, a writer who has lost his chops, sets out for the Ecuadorian jungle with his ex-girlfriend in search of inspiration and a rare hallucinogen. The drug, once found, heightens both his powers of perception and his libido, but it also leaves him with an unfortunate side effect: periodic blindness. Unable to resist the insights that enable him to write again, Steadman spends the next year of his life in thrall to his psychedelic muse and his erotic fantasies, with consequences that are both ecstatic and disastrous.
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(Poetry. "This evening I'm surprise/ anew/ by the way ligh...)
Poetry. "This evening I'm surprise/ anew/ by the way light/ alludes to// an exile// wherein/ a world of which/ I cannot speak/ is glorified"--"Pont L'Archiveche." Praise for Paul Pines' "Breath": ".the poems in `Breath' constitute a heartfelt, extended meditation on the transporting effects of everyday phenomena, how the psychic wormholes that allow instantaneous travel along out internal galaxies hide just under the next memory, the next sentence, and beneath them all, the All itself--unknowable, perhaps, but in Pines' poetry, nearly imaginable"--American Book Review.
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( This startling, far-reaching book captures the tumult, ...)
This startling, far-reaching book captures the tumult, ambition, hardship, and serenity that mark today’s India. Theroux’s Westerners risk venturing far beyond the subcontinent’s well-worn paths to discover woe or truth or peace. A middle-aged couple on vacation veers heedlessly from idyll to chaos. A buttoned-up Boston lawyer finds succor in Mumbai’s reeking slums. And a young woman befriends an elephant in Bangalore. We also meet Indian characters as singular as they are reflective of the country’s subtle ironies: an executive who yearns to become a holy beggar, an earnest striver whose personality is rewired by acquiring an American accent, a miracle-working guru, and others. As ever, Theroux’s portraits of people and places explode stereotypes to exhilarating effect. The Elephanta Suite is a welcome gift to readers of international fiction and fans of this extraordinary writer.
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( A master of the travel narrative weaves three intertwin...)
A master of the travel narrative weaves three intertwined novellas of Westerners transformed by their sojourns in India. This startling, far-reaching book captures the tumult, ambition, hardship, and serenity that mark today’s India. Theroux’s Westerners risk venturing far beyond the subcontinent’s well-worn paths to discover woe or truth or peace. A middle-aged couple on vacation veers heedlessly from idyll to chaos. A buttoned-up Boston lawyer finds succor in Mumbai’s reeking slums. And a young woman befriends an elephant in Bangalore. We also meet Indian characters as singular as they are reflective of the country’s subtle ironies: an executive who yearns to become a holy beggar, an earnest young striver whose personality is rewired by acquiring an American accent, a miracle-working guru, and others. As ever, Theroux’s portraits of people and places explode stereotypes to exhilarating effect. The Elephanta Suite urges us toward a fresh, compelling, and often inspiring notion of what India is, and what it can do to those who try to lose--or find--themselves there.
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( First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Therou...)
First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's fabled trains -- the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Mandalay Express, the Trans-Siberian Express -- are the stars of a journey that takes him on a loop eastbound from London's Victoria Station to Tokyo Central, then back from Japan on the Trans-Siberian. Brimming with Theroux's signature humor and wry observations, this engrossing chronicle is essential reading for both the ardent adventurer and the armchair traveler.
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( Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station ...)
Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Theroux winds up on the poky, wandering Old Patagonian Express steam engine, which comes to a halt in a desolate land of cracked hills and thorn bushes. But with Theroux the view along the way is what matters: the monologuing Mr. Thornberry in Costa Rica, the bogus priest of Cali, and the blind Jorge Luis Borges, who delights in having Theroux read Robert Louis Stevenson to him.
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( After eleven years as an American living in London, the...)
After eleven years as an American living in London, the renowned travel writer Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise around the coast of Great Britain to find out what the British were really like. The result is this perceptive, hilarious record of the journey. Whether in Cornwall or Wales, Ulster or Scotland, the people he encountered along the way revealed far more of themselves than they perhaps intended to display to a stranger. Theroux captured their rich and varied conversational commentary with caustic wit and penetrating insight.
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( The journeys of Paul Theroux take place not only in exo...)
The journeys of Paul Theroux take place not only in exotic, unexpected places of the world but in the thoughts, reading, and emotions of the writer himself. A gathering of people, places, and ideas in fifty glittering pieces of gold.
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(Award winning Paul Theroux has written many iconic shorte...)
Award winning Paul Theroux has written many iconic shorter pieces of travel writing which have been collected together in the captivating "Sunrise with Seamonsters". "Sunrise with Seamonsters" is Paul Theroux's immensely entertaining collection of his shorter writings, ranging from sketches to critical essays. Each piece marks a new 'confrontation with the world' and throws new light on the political and social climate of diverse cultures such as those of New York, Singapore, Ireland and Malawi. Others give a lively portrayal of the people Theroux has met or books and landscapes which have inspired him. Above all, this is a fascinating perspective on two decades of travelling, writing and living away from home. "As observant, intuitive, wry, inventive and eloquent as Graham Greene". ("Sunday Times"). "Theroux is one of those damnably good writers for whom dullness is a cardinal sin and who seems unable to put a foot wrong. Certainly the brightest collection of essays to hit the streets in years". ("Irish Times"). "One of the best literary travellers we have". ("Evening Standard"). American travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his other non-fiction titles, "Riding the Iron Rooster", "The Happy Isles of Oceania", "The Kingdom by the Sea", "The Tao of Travel", "Ghost Train to the Eastern Star", "The Old Patagonian Express", "The Great Railway Bazaar", "Dark Star Safari", "Fresh-air Fiend", "Sir Vidia's Shadow', "The Pillars of Hercules", and his novels and collections of short stories, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize winner "The Mosquito Coast" are available from Penguin.
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("In sunrise with Seamonsters, Paul Theroux has now brough...)
"In sunrise with Seamonsters, Paul Theroux has now brought together the travels that fell outside the scope of his other books. Here, his journeys take place not only in the exotic, unexpected places of the world but in the thought, reading and emotions of the writer himself."
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(Part Two: 1979-1984 includes: The Orient Express; Rudyard...)
Part Two: 1979-1984 includes: The Orient Express; Rudyard Kipling; Railways of the Raj; Graham Greene's Traveling Companion; and Sunrise with Seamonsters.
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( Paul Theroux, the author of the train travel classics T...)
Paul Theroux, the author of the train travel classics The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express, takes to the rails once again in this account of his epic journey through China. He hops aboard as part of a tour group in London and sets out for China's border. He then spends a year traversing the country, where he pieces together a fascinating snapshot of a unique moment in history. From the barren deserts of Xinjiang to the ice forests of Manchuria, from the dense metropolises of Shanghai, Beijing, and Canton to the dry hills of Tibet, Theroux offers an unforgettable portrait of a magnificent land and an extraordinary people.
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(Paul Theroux invites you to join him on the journey of a ...)
Paul Theroux invites you to join him on the journey of a lifetime, in the grand romanttic tradition, by train across Euope, through the vast underbelly of Asia and in the heart of Russia, and then up to China. Here is China by rail, as seen and heard through the eyes and ears of one of the most intrepid and insightful travel writers of our time.
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(Signed by Theroux on the half-title page! A travel book a...)
Signed by Theroux on the half-title page! A travel book about the author's voyage through China during the 1980s. Hardcover. Original jacket. Number line counts down to 1. Light toning to pages and jacket. Very Good/Very Good.
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(Paul Theroux left Victoria Station on a rainy Saturday in...)
Paul Theroux left Victoria Station on a rainy Saturday in April thinking that taking eight trains across Europe, Eastern Europe, the USSR and Mongolia would be the easy way to get to the Chinese border - the relaxing way, even. He would read a little, take notes, eat regular meals and gaze contentedly out of windows. The reality, of course, was very different. In fact, Theroux experienced a decidedly odd and unexpected trip to China that set the challenging tone for his epic year-long rail journey around that vast, inscrutable land - a journey which involved riding nearly every train in the country. 'Wry, humorful and occasionally querulous...as Theroux makes excruciatingly clear, travelling alone in the Middle Kingdom is not for the faint of heart or stomach' - "Time".
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(The Iron Rooster is an aged train going between Peking an...)
The Iron Rooster is an aged train going between Peking and Urumchi. Theroux's journey on it takes him to the heart of China, where he learns about the ways of the people - many of which have survived centuries of change, spiritually, physically, economically and politically.
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( In one of his most exotic and breathtaking journeys, th...)
In one of his most exotic and breathtaking journeys, the intrepid traveler Paul Theroux ventures to the South Pacific, exploring fifty-one islands by collapsible kayak. Beginning in New Zealand's rain forests and ultimately coming to shore thousands of miles away in Hawaii, Theroux paddles alone over isolated atolls, through dirty harbors and shark-filled waters, and along treacherous coastlines. This exhilarating tropical epic is full of disarming observations and high adventure.
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(His travels began on the islands of New Zealand and Austr...)
His travels began on the islands of New Zealand and Australia. Then it's on to New Guinea, Melanesian Fiji, and Polynesia Tonga, and continuing on under the tropical skies to Fiji, Samoa, Tahiti, and the last points on the Polynesian triangle: Easter Island and the paradise of Hawaii. What a trip! Ivy Books, New York 1992. 4.25" x 7" tall; 557pp.
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(Printed in 1992, Vol. 22, hardcover. Non-fiction.)
Printed in 1992, Vol. 22, hardcover. Non-fiction.
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(Part One Of Two Parts Imagine kayaking the Pacific, exp...)
Part One Of Two Parts Imagine kayaking the Pacific, exploring surfy coasts and blue lagoons, beaching your canoe in paradise. Paul Theroux did just that. . .New Zealand and Australia, New Guinea, the Solomons, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Tahiti, the Marquesas, Easter Island and Hawaii. Theroux enters a Gauguin painting, sails in the wake of Captain Cook and recalls the tales of Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson. Alone in his kayak, approaching deserted shores, he glides through time, discovering a world of islands and their remarkable people. "Full of disarming observations, high adventure and memorable characters rendered with keen irony." (Publishers Weekly)
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( In Dark Star Safari the wittily observant and endearing...)
In Dark Star Safari the wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux takes readers the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train. In the course of his epic and enlightening journey, he endures danger, delay, and dismaying circumstances. Gauging the state of affairs, he talks to Africans, aid workers, missionaries, and tourists. What results is an insightful meditation on the history, politics, and beauty of Africa and its people, and "a vivid portrayal of the secret sweetness, the hidden vitality, and the long-patient hope that lies just beneath the surface" (Rocky Mountain News). In a new postscript, Theroux recounts the dramatic events of a return to Africa to visit Zimbabwe.
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( Jack Flowers knew he needed to shake things up when he ...)
Jack Flowers knew he needed to shake things up when he jumped into the Straits of Malacca and hitched a ride to Singapore. Deftly identifying the fastest route to fame along the seedy port, Jack starts hiring girls out to lonely tourists, sailors, bachelors — anyone with some loose change and a wandering eye — soon making enough money to open two pleasure palaces. But just as Jack is finally coming into his own, a shocking tumble toward the brink of death leaves him shaken, desperate to pull himself up to greatness. Depressed and vulnerable, he’s quick to do business with Edwin Shuck, a powerful American working to take down an unsuspecting general. Marked with Paul Theroux’s trademark biting humor and audacious prose, Saint Jack is a gripping work from an award-winning author.
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(Award-winning writer Paul Theroux explores the darker und...)
Award-winning writer Paul Theroux explores the darker underside of the community of expatriates in South-East Asia in his compelling and strikingly honest novel "Saint Jack". Jack Flowers, saint or sinner, caught a passing bumboat into Singapore and got a job as a water-clerk to a Chinese ship chandler. Now, on the side, he offers girls (indeed 'anything, anything at all') to tourists, sailors, residents and expatriates, but he is haunted by his lack of worldly success and his fifty-three years weight heavily on him. So when he agrees to act as blackmailer for the faintly sinister American Edwin Shuck in a plot against a general from Vietnam, he has high, not to mention wild, hopes of triumph. These are the outrageous confessions of an ingenious conman in the seedy and unforgettable world of expatriates amidst imperial ruins. "A witty, subtle, often moving self-portrait of a memorable rogue". ("Observer"). "Theroux's prose it rich, his perceptions so many-layered, he involves us in a world that extends well beyond the physical limits of his novel". ("The Times"). American travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his novels and collected short stories, "My Other Life", "The Collected Stories", "My Secret History", "The Lower River", "The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro", "A Dead Hand", "Millroy the Magician", "The Elephanta Suite", "The Consul's File", "The Family Arsenal", "The Mosquito Coast", and his works of non-fiction, including the iconic "The Great Railway Bazaar" are available from Penguin.
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(Remember punk rock split singles? Paul Bingham and Emil K...)
Remember punk rock split singles? Paul Bingham and Emil Krestle have combined forces to do much the same thing in a literary vein, only it's much nastier. Expect horror both supernatural and psychological, plus a vivid touch of Burroughs-type surrealism. A book by vampires, about vampires.
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( Paul Gottfried has spent a lifetime asking politically ...)
Paul Gottfried has spent a lifetime asking politically incorrect questions, untimely questions that have made him more unpopular among some timid “movement” conservatives than among critical theorists, Central European Marxists, and assorted other debating and dining partners. But in Encounters: My Life with Nixon, Marcuse, and Other Friends and Teachers, Gottfried puts past political battles aside in order to recount his varied associations and friendships with a host of fascinating figures, including his father, Herbert Marcuse, Paul Piccone, Christopher Lasch, Richard Nixon, and Patrick J. Buchanan. Gottfried’s memoir emphasizes the Forrest Gump–like quality of his often accidental relationships with these celebrities and stimulating personalities, the benefits of which were not social or professional but personal. He insists that his life would be of little general interest were it not for the fortuitous encounters that have raised it out of the ordinary. The result is a unique, enthralling narrative that makes a signal contribution to American intellectual history.
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(The second volume of a collection of weird tales by a Vic...)
The second volume of a collection of weird tales by a Victorian master of the gothic and occult In his time, the aristocratic Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1st Baron Lytton) was one of the most popular and prolific writers in the English language as well as a notable administrator who held the post of secretary of state for the colonies under Derby's government during the Victorian era. Today, few remember his works or indeed how he has left his mark on the language. For example we owe him acknowledgement for the expressions, 'the pen is mightier than the sword,' 'the great unwashed' and for the infamous opening line of his novel, Paul Clifford, 'It was a dark and stormy night.' This last contribution has inspired humorists for decades and even a writing competition. However, it would be unfair to Bulwer-Lytton to consider him solely by these diversions. Here was a well regarded writer of poetry and stage plays, of historical novels, mysteries, romances, science fiction and of excellently crafted tales of the supernatural and the occult-the subject of this special four volume collection from Leonaur. Several of his works were converted into operas and Bulwer-Lytton was also the editor of popular magazines, The New Monthly and The Monthly Chronicle. It is not uncommon for prolific writers to turn their talents to a variety of genres and in any event Bulwer-Lytton belonged to the golden age of gothic and supernatural writing in which there were several highly regarded authors whose contributions remain cherished to this day. In his retrospective view of the very finest writers of ghost stories, the author M. R. James (widely accepted as a master of the genre himself) made special note of Bulwer-Lytton's, 'The Haunters and the Haunted.' However, the author's particular interest in the occult found expression in his writings on the bizarre and many of his most chilling tales have this at their core. The second volume of this Leonaur four volume collection includes a novel A Strange Story, one short story and one ballad of the strange and unusual. This substantial collection is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket for collectors. Leonaur hardbacks feature gold foil lettering on their spines, cloth bindings and fabric head and tail bands.
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(The third volume of a collection of weird tales by a Vict...)
The third volume of a collection of weird tales by a Victorian master of the gothic and occult In his time, the aristocratic Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1st Baron Lytton) was one of the most popular and prolific writers in the English language as well as a notable administrator who held the post of secretary of state for the colonies under Derby's government during the Victorian era. Today, few remember his works or indeed how he has left his mark on the language. For example we owe him acknowledgement for the expressions, 'the pen is mightier than the sword,' 'the great unwashed' and for the infamous opening line of his novel, Paul Clifford, 'It was a dark and stormy night.' This last contribution has inspired humorists for decades and even a writing competition. However, it would be unfair to Bulwer-Lytton to consider him solely by these diversions. Here was a well regarded writer of poetry and stage plays, of historical novels, mysteries, romances, science fiction and of excellently crafted tales of the supernatural and the occult-the subject of this special four volume collection from Leonaur. Several of his works were converted into operas and Bulwer-Lytton was also the editor of popular magazines, The New Monthly and The Monthly Chronicle. It is not uncommon for prolific writers to turn their talents to a variety of genres and in any event Bulwer-Lytton belonged to the golden age of gothic and supernatural writing in which there were several highly regarded authors whose contributions remain cherished to this day. In his retrospective view of the very finest writers of ghost stories, the author M. R. James (widely accepted as a master of the genre himself) made special note of Bulwer-Lytton's, 'The Haunters and the Haunted.' However, the author's particular interest in the occult found expression in his writings on the bizarre and many of his most chilling tales have this at their core. The third volume of this Leonaur four volume collection includes a novel Zanoni, four short stories and two ballads of the strange and unusual. This substantial collection is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket for collectors. Leonaur hardbacks feature gold foil lettering on their spines, cloth bindings and fabric head and tail bands.
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(Award winning writer Paul Theroux embarks on a journey th...)
Award winning writer Paul Theroux embarks on a journey that, though closer to home than most of his expeditions, uncovers some surprising truths about Britain and the British people in the '80s in "The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain". Paul Theroux's round-Britain travelogue is funny, perceptive and 'best avoided by patriots with high blood pressure...' After eleven years living as an American in London, Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise round the coast and find out what Britain and the British are really like. It was 1982, the summer of the Falklands War, the ideal time, he found, to surprise the British into talking about themselves. The result makes superbly vivid and engaging reading. "A sharp and funny descriptive writer. One of his golden talents, perhaps because he is American and therefore classless in British eyes, is the ability to chat up and get on with all sorts and conditions of British...Theroux is a good companion". ("The Times"). "Filled with history, insights, landscape, epiphanies, meditations, celebrations and laments". ("The New York Times"). "Few of us have seen the entirety of the coast and I for one am grateful to Mr Theroux for making my journey unnecessary. He describes it all brilliantly and honestly". (Anthony Burgess, "Observer"). American travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his other non-fiction titles, "Riding the Iron Rooster", "The Happy Isles of Oceania", "Sunrise with Seamonsters", "The Tao of Travel", "Ghost Train to the Eastern Star", "The Old Patagonian Express", "The Great Railway Bazaar", "Dark Star Safari", "Fresh-air Fiend", "Sir Vidia's Shadow", "The Pillars of Hercules", and his novels and collections of short stories, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize winner "The Mosquito Coast" are available from Penguin.
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(Contemporary / American English Allie Fox hates the Unite...)
Contemporary / American English Allie Fox hates the United States and he hates the twentieth century. He takes his wife and children to the jungle in Honduras to find a new, simpler way of living. But things go wrong, and their lives become much worse and more frightening than anything back home. This Pack contains a Book and MP3
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(Contemporary / American English Allie Fox hates the Unite...)
Contemporary / American English Allie Fox hates the United States and he hates the twentieth century. He takes his wife and children to the jungle in Honduras to find a new, simpler way of living. But things go wrong, and their lives become much worse and more frightening than anything back home. This Pack contains a Book and MP3
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(Contemporary / American English Allie Fox hates the Unite...)
Contemporary / American English Allie Fox hates the United States and he hates the twentieth century. He takes his wife and children to the jungle in Honduras to find a new, simpler way of living. But things go wrong, and their lives become much worse and more frightening than anything back home. This Pack contains a Book and MP3
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(Kowloon Tong: A Novel of Hong Kong [ Kowloon Tong: A Nove...)
Kowloon Tong: A Novel of Hong Kong [ Kowloon Tong: A Novel of Hong Kong by Theroux, Paul ( Author ) Paperback Jul- 1998 ] Paperback Jul- 06- 1998
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(Neville "Bunt" Mullard and his mother see Hong Kong as a ...)
Neville "Bunt" Mullard and his mother see Hong Kong as a part of Great Britain, and as a place that has afforded them every possible comfort. Certainly they have never been forced to think about the impending "Chinese take-away" until mainland businessman Mr. Hung offers them a tidy sum for their textile factory. Bunt refuses to sell, but realizes that the offer was not optional. The disappearance of a woman from the factory forces Bunt to make decisions that matter--and perhaps to discover love. 4 cassettes.
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(The third volume of a collection of weird tales by a Vict...)
The third volume of a collection of weird tales by a Victorian master of the gothic and occult In his time, the aristocratic Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1st Baron Lytton) was one of the most popular and prolific writers in the English language as well as a notable administrator who held the post of secretary of state for the colonies under Derby's government during the Victorian era. Today, few remember his works or indeed how he has left his mark on the language. For example we owe him acknowledgement for the expressions, 'the pen is mightier than the sword,' 'the great unwashed' and for the infamous opening line of his novel, Paul Clifford, 'It was a dark and stormy night.' This last contribution has inspired humorists for decades and even a writing competition. However, it would be unfair to Bulwer-Lytton to consider him solely by these diversions. Here was a well regarded writer of poetry and stage plays, of historical novels, mysteries, romances, science fiction and of excellently crafted tales of the supernatural and the occult-the subject of this special four volume collection from Leonaur. Several of his works were converted into operas and Bulwer-Lytton was also the editor of popular magazines, The New Monthly and The Monthly Chronicle. It is not uncommon for prolific writers to turn their talents to a variety of genres and in any event Bulwer-Lytton belonged to the golden age of gothic and supernatural writing in which there were several highly regarded authors whose contributions remain cherished to this day. In his retrospective view of the very finest writers of ghost stories, the author M. R. James (widely accepted as a master of the genre himself) made special note of Bulwer-Lytton's, 'The Haunters and the Haunted.' However, the author's particular interest in the occult found expression in his writings on the bizarre and many of his most chilling tales have this at their core. The third volume of this Leonaur four volume collection includes a novel Zanoni, four short stories and two ballads of the strange and unusual. This substantial collection is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket for collectors. Leonaur hardbacks feature gold foil lettering on their spines, cloth bindings and fabric head and tail bands.
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(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981, as dated by Houghton Miff...)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981, as dated by Houghton Mifflin on the title page; 1982, as dated by Cape Cod Scriveners on the copyright page. Signed by Theroux. ARC (Advance Review Copy) for the First U.S. Edition, accompanied by an inscribed business card from Houghton Mifflin Manager of Advertising and Publiciity, Carolyn Amussen to the unnamed recipient of the ARC, laid in. See scans. Signed by Theroux, without inscription, on the title page. One of approximately just 350 ARC copies issued. Octavo, perfect-bound wraps illustrated as per the then-upcoming jacket design by Paul Bacon Studio, Inc. for the impending first edition; just a small handful of the woodcut illustrations by David Frampton are ion the ARC; orange cloth and blue-gray paper boards with black spine imprinting; 374 pp. A much-better-than Very Good example, with a very faint cover crease and a coule of smudges. See scans. Theroux's 1981 tale of a middle-aged professor's estrangement-escape from modern society by way of a "muddled, metaphysical journey into the jungle" won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, was named the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year, and was the basis of the (now) critically well-regarded Peter Weir - Harrison Ford film of the same name in 1996. A very collectible form of the title, and, with the presentation ephemera (which reads: ""You'll be surprised by this Theroux - a departure - and (underlined) Very powerful, How are you ?"), without doubt the scarcest form. Please see scans. L54n
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(RBA Coleccionables. Barcelona. 2000. 22 cm. 217 p. Encuad...)
RBA Coleccionables. Barcelona. 2000. 22 cm. 217 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Nueva narrativa'. Theroux, Paul 1941-. Traducción, Daniel Iglesias Kennedy. Traducción de: Chicago loop. Nueva narrativa (Barcelona) .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 84-473-1746-3
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(Remember punk rock split singles? Paul Bingham and Emil K...)
Remember punk rock split singles? Paul Bingham and Emil Krestle have combined forces to do much the same thing in a literary vein, only it's much nastier. Expect horror both supernatural and psychological, plus a vivid touch of Burroughs-type surrealism. A book by vampires, about vampires.
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(The final volume of a collection of weird tales by a Vict...)
The final volume of a collection of weird tales by a Victorian master of the gothic and occult In his time, the aristocratic Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1st Baron Lytton) was one of the most popular and prolific writers in the English language as well as a notable administrator who held the post of secretary of state for the colonies under Derby's government during the Victorian era. Today, few remember his works or indeed how he has left his mark on the language. For example we owe him acknowledgement for the expressions, 'the pen is mightier than the sword,' 'the great unwashed' and for the infamous opening line of his novel, Paul Clifford, 'It was a dark and stormy night.' This last contribution has inspired humorists for decades and even a writing competition. However, it would be unfair to Bulwer-Lytton to consider him solely by these diversions. Here was a well regarded writer of poetry and stage plays, of historical novels, mysteries, romances, science fiction and of excellently crafted tales of the supernatural and the occult-the subject of this special four volume collection from Leonaur. Several of his works were converted into operas and Bulwer-Lytton was also the editor of popular magazines, The New Monthly and The Monthly Chronicle. It is not uncommon for prolific writers to turn their talents to a variety of genres and in any event Bulwer-Lytton belonged to the golden age of gothic and supernatural writing in which there were several highly regarded authors whose contributions remain cherished to this day. In his retrospective view of the very finest writers of ghost stories, the author M. R. James (widely accepted as a master of the genre himself) made special note of Bulwer-Lytton's, 'The Haunters and the Haunted.' However, the author's particular interest in the occult found expression in his writings on the bizarre and many of his most chilling tales have this at their core. The final volume of this Leonaur four volume collection includes a novel Lucretia, three short stories and one ballad of the strange and unusual. This substantial collection is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket for collectors. Leonaur hardbacks feature gold foil lettering on their spines, cloth bindings and fabric head and tail bands.
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(This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)
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(Early Oxford Picture Palaces by Paul J. Marriott. 1978 pa...)
Early Oxford Picture Palaces by Paul J. Marriott. 1978 paperback published by Paul J. Marriott. 32 pages. Illustrated with diagrams and black-and-white photographs.
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(The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration a...)
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansion. Dominating the legal field is the Commentaries of the Law of England by Sir William Blackstone, which first appeared in 1765. Reference works such as almanacs and catalogues continue to educate us by revealing the day-to-day workings of society. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Harvard University Law Library N006759 A reissue of the 1775 edition with new preliminary pages. London : printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall; for Richardson and Urquhart, 1776. viii,211,[1]p. ; 8°
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(Paul Bowles Collected Stories and Later Writings by Bowle...)
Paul Bowles Collected Stories and Later Writings by Bowles, Paul. Published by Library of America,2002, Binding: Hardcover
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(ALL THE BEST is Ed Koch at his most candid and flamboyant...)
ALL THE BEST is Ed Koch at his most candid and flamboyant. Here are the mayor's most combative, illuminating, and amusing letters - letters which reveal as never before Koch's personal views on the people, issues, and events of the last decade.
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Theroux, Paul Edward was born on April 10, 1941 in Medford, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Albert Eugene and Anne (Dittami) Theroux.
Bachelor, University Massachusetts, Amherst. Doctor of Letters, University Massachusetts, Amherst, 1988. Doctor of Letters, Trinity College, Washington, 1980.
Doctor of Letters, Tufts University, 1980.
Lecturer, University of Urbino, Italy 1963, Soche Hill College, Malawi 1963-1965, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda 1965-1968, University of Singapore 1968-1971. Writer-inResidence, University of Virginia 1972. Honorary Doctor of Letters (Tufts University) 1983, (University of Massachusetts) 1988.
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(Part Two: 1979-1984 includes: The Orient Express; Rudyard...)
(Remember punk rock split singles? Paul Bingham and Emil K...)
(Remember punk rock split singles? Paul Bingham and Emil K...)
(At Christmas time two orphans and their guardian search t...)
(Kowloon Tong: A Novel of Hong Kong [ Kowloon Tong: A Nove...)
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(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981, as dated by Houghton Miff...)
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( From the New York Times best-selling author Paul Therou...)
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(Part One Of Two Parts Imagine kayaking the Pacific, exp...)
(Part Two Of Two Parts Imagine kayaking the Pacific, exp...)
( Jack Flowers knew he needed to shake things up when he ...)
( Jack Flowers knew he needed to shake things up when he ...)
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(Signed by Theroux on the half-title page! A travel book a...)
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(Fourteen-year-old Jilly Farina was enthralled with Millro...)
(Contemporary / American English Allie Fox hates the Unite...)
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(Contemporary / American English Allie Fox hates the Unite...)
(Contemporary / American English Allie Fox hates the Unite...)
(To VERY GOOD Wtihdrawn Library, usual stamps, text very g...)
(Brilliantly written, erotically charged, My Secret Histor...)
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(Signed First Edition of O-Zone by Paul Theroux, Published...)
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(The Iron Rooster is an aged train going between Peking an...)
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(A journey around Great Britain by travel enthusiastPaul T...)
(A journey around Great Britain by travel enthusiastPaul T...)
(Fourteen exotic tales of manners and morality in modern s...)
(His travels began on the islands of New Zealand and Austr...)
(ALL THE BEST is Ed Koch at his most candid and flamboyant...)
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(Boston 1984 1st (stated). 8vo., 219pp. VG in VG DJ.)
(Great audio cassette set!)
(8 Cassettes Part 1 of 2)
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(Printed in 1992, Vol. 22, hardcover. Non-fiction.)
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(Japanese. 390 pages.)
(Poetry. "This evening I'm surprise/ anew/ by the way ligh...)
Author: (fiction) Waldo, 1967, Fong and the Indians, 1968, Girls at Play, 1969, Murder in Mount Holly, 1969, Jungle Lovers, 1971, Sinning with Annie, 1972, Saint Jack, 1973, The Black House, 1974, The Family Arsenal, 1976, The Consul's File, 1977, Picture Palace, 1978 (Whitbread prize for fiction), A Christmas Card, 1978, London Snow, 1980, World's End, 1980, The Mosquito Coast, 1981, The London Embassy, 1982, Half Moon Street, 1984, O-Zone, 1986, My Secret History, 1988, Chicago Loop, 1990, Millroy and the Magician, 1993, My Other Life, 1996, Kowloon Tong, 1997, Collected Stories, 1997, Collected Short Novels, 1998, Hotel Honolulu, 2001, The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro, 2003, Blinding Light, 2005, The Elephanta Suite, 2007, A Dead Hard, 2009. (nonfiction) V.S. Naipaul, 1973, The Great Railway Bazaar, 1975, The Old Patagonian Express, 1979, The Kingdom by the Sea, 1983, Sailing Through China, 1983, Sunrise with Sea Monsters, 1985, The White Man's Burden, 1987, Riding the Iron Rooster, 1988, The Happy Isles of Oceania, 1992, The Pillars of Hercules, 1995, Sir Vidia's Shadow, 1998, Fresh Air Fiend, 2000, Nurse Wolf and Doctor Sacks, 2001, Dark Star Safari, 2002. (film script) Saint Jack, 1979, Chinese Box, 1998.
Fellow Royal Society Literature, Royal Geography Society. Member American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Rowing.
Married Anne Castle in 1967.