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My Other Life
My Other Life is a compelling collection of short memoirs that blur the lines between biography and fiction as award-winning writer Paul Theroux imagines what his life would have been like had he made different choices. A writer's epic account of another life of other choices - of turning fact into extraordinary fiction...'A memoir; a collection of short stories; an assemblage of fables; an anthology of Theroux: a book in which he is everywhere present as himself and as someone other...Endlessly inventive beguiling provocative and insidiously readable' Sunday Telegraph'Evocative painstaking comic even tender brilliant. Follows the outline of Theroux's life - teaching in Africa and Singapore prosperity and marriage in rain-blackened London catastrophe then flight to the Pacific's sunnier shores - each chapter is plotted as a dramatic confrontation' Guardian'A great pleasure and a bit of a tease. Theroux is fluent witty and almost faultlessly able to deliver a satisfying story' Melvyn Bragg Literary ReviewAmerican 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 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 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 Old Patagonian Express
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Fresh Air Fiend
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Fresh Air Fiend
Travel Writings€ 65,95 -
Fresh Air Fiend
Travel Writings€ 65,95 -
Op de vlakte der slangen
een roadtrip door MexicoE-bookIn ‘Op de vlakte der slangen’ maakt Paul Theroux, grootmeester van de reisliteratuur, een maandenlange roadtrip door Mexico. Theroux begint in Nogales, een grensstad in het noorden. Een metershoog hek loopt dwars door de stad en scheidt de welvarende Amerikaanse kant van het verarmde Mexicaanse deel. Vervolgens rijdt hij langs de grens, zakt af naar Mexico-Stad en verder naar het zuiden, naar de armste provincies Oaxaca en Chiapas. Hij spreekt met mensen van allerlei pluimage, verdiept zich in de geschiedenis, de cultuur en de keuken. Het wordt een onvergetelijke reis door een van de meest levendige, complexe en soms gevaarlijkste land ter wereld.
€ 12,99