Paul Theroux

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The Mosquito Coast

Paul Theroux

The 13-year-old son of a fanatical father tells the story of his family’s journey from the New England suburbs to the Honduran jungle. Abominating what he sees as the decadence and horror of the 20th century, Allie Fox abandons ...

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Published: Jun 2006

Kowloon Tong of Hong Kong

Paul Theroux

Ninety-nine years of colonial rule are ending as the British prepare to hand over Hong Kong to China. For Betty Mullard and her son, Bunt, it doesn't concern them - until the mysterious Mr. Hung from the mainland offers them a large s...

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Published: Jul 1998

The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro

Paul Theroux

From the best-selling author of Dark Star Safari and Hotel Honolulu, Paul Theroux's latest offers provocative tales of memory and desire. The sensual story of an unusual love affair leads the collection. The thrill and risk of pursuit...

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Published: Oct 2004

The Lower River

Paul Theroux

"[Hock] knows he is ensorcelled by exoticism, but he can't help himself. And, as things go from bad to worse and the pages start to turn faster, neither can we. A."—Entertainment Weekly When he was a young man, Ellis Ho...

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Published: May 2013

The Elephanta Suite

Paul Theroux

This startling, far-reaching book captures the tumult, ambition,hardship, and serenity that mark today's India. Theroux's Westernersrisk venturing far beyond the subcontinent's well-worn paths todiscover woe or truth or peace. A middl...

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Published: Sep 2008

The Great Railway Bazaar

Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux revolutionized travel writing with his 1975 book THE GREAT RAILWAY BAZAAR, a stirring and very personal account of his travels by railway from London to Tokyo and back. Choosing to go by train, alone, and with minimal gea...

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Published: Jun 2006

Hotel Honolulu

Paul Theroux

The narrator of Theroux's novel, a failed writer, manages a rundown hotel in Hawaii for a flamboyant character named Buddy Hamstra. The hotel--and in fact the entire city--seems to be people entirely by eccentrics, including a lawyer ...

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Published: May 2002

My Other Life

Paul Theroux

In the Washington Post Book World, Sven Birkerts called this exuberant novel 'a complex and gripping work of invention and confession . . . I understood again how the prose of a true writer can bring us to a world beyond.' The book sp...

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Published: Sep 1997

A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta

Paul Theroux

When Jerry Delfont, an aimless travel writer with writer's block (his "dead hand"), receives a letter from an American philanthropist, Mrs. Merrill Unger, with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son's, he is...

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Published: Jan 2011

Blinding Light

Paul Theroux

Like his creator, Paul Theroux, the hero of BLINDING LIGHT, Slade Steadman, became famous for a best-selling travel book. In Theroux’s case it was THE GREAT RAILWAY BAZAAR, in Steadman’s it’s TRESPASSING, a book abou...

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Published: Jun 2006

Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings

Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux's first collection of essays and articles devoted entirely to travel writing, FRESH AIR FIEND touches down on five continents and floats through most seas in between to deliver a literary adventure of the first order, wit...

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Published: May 2001

Mother Land

Paul Theroux

"Theroux possesses a fabulously nasty sense of humor." — Stephen King, New York Times Book Review  To those in her Cape Cod town, Mother is an exemplar of piety, frugality, and hard work. To her husband and seven children...

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Published: May 2018

The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Aro...

Paul Theroux

As he travels around the coast of Great Britain, the author of The Mosquito Coast provides a profile of Britain and her people in a collection of interviews with citizens during the time of the papal visit, the Falklands crisis, a gre...

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Published: Jun 2006
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