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Waldo (1967) :
Waldo
will be called a surrealist novel.
It is not one. It is about nouns we know and see, not about nouns
we dream ... |
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Fong And The Indians (1968) :
The entry of the Asiatic as
labourer, trader, and capitalist into competition in industry and
enterprise ... |
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Murder In Mount Holly (1969) :
Murder in Mount Holly
is set at that time in American
history when Lyndon Johnson was having trouble with his gall
bladder ... |
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Girls At Play (1969) :
This novel, set in the green
chaos of East Africa, concerns the ambitions of three women,
teachers at a remote girls’ school ... |
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Jungle Lovers (1971) :
Time
magazine’s notice was particular; it spoke of riot and intrusion,
an infant war: it named Malawi ... |
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Sinning With Annie (1972) :
Theroux’s world is delineated once
again in these tales, whose settings and moods vary from the
exotic ... |
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Saint Jack (1973) :
Jack Flowers, saint or sinner,
found a new lease on life when he jumped off the Allegro in
the Straits of Malacca ... |
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The Black House (1974) :
Somewhere in the Black House is a
presence so intrusive and unexpected it must be a ghost ... |
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The Family Arsenal (1976) :
London is both theater and
protagonist in Paul Theroux’s novel. His cast comes from every
layer of its society ... |
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The Consul's File (1977) :
Post-colonial Malaysia is Theroux
territory, charted fictionally in Saint Jack and revisited
in The Great Railway Bazaar ... |
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Picture Palace (1978) :
A novel about a celebrated woman
photographer. To the world, Maude Coffin Pratt
is her work -- and vice versa ... |
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A Christmas Card (1978) :
Lost in a New England snowstorm
as they journey toward their new home, two small boys and their
parents find shelter ... |
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London Snow (1980) :
On a narrow London street the
sweet-shop crackles with color. Red-ribboned chocolate boxes ... |
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World's End (1980) :
London, Paris, Germany, Africa,
provincial Holland, the worlds of Corsica and Puerto Rico ... |
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The Mosquito Coast (1982) :
Spellbinding adventure story of a
family that rejects its homeland and tries to find a happier and
simpler life ... |
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The London Embassy (1983) :
A natural successor to The
Consul’s File, this book takes the American narrator from Ayer
Hitam ... |
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Half Moon Street (1984) :
Two brilliant short novels on
the theme of a double life. Although they are worlds apart in
scene and character ... |
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O-zone (1986) :
Beware, all who enter here...
into the America of the 21st century, this forbidden land of
nuclear waste, mutants, and aliens ... |
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My Secret History (1989) :
Brilliantly written, erotically
charged, My Secret History is Paul Theroux's tour de force.
It is the story of Andre Parent ... |
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Chicago Loop (1990) :
Paul Theroux, best-selling author
of The Mosquito Coast, O-Zone, and My Secret History,
gives us in Chicago Loop ... |
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Millroy The Magician (1994) :
Jilly Farina is fourteen, but so
small that she wears younger kids' clothes. Her father is drunk on
the day of the ... |
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My Other Life (1996) :
Spanning almost thirty years,
My Other Life traces the journey of a fictional Paul Theroux
from young bachelorhood in Africa ... |
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Kowloon Tong (1997) :
For Neville "Bunt" Mullard and
his mother, Betty, Hong Kong is part of Britain -- one of the
pleasanter parts ... |
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Hotel Honolulu (2001) :
Welcome to the Hotel Honolulu, a down-at-the-heels tourist
place on a back street two blocks from the beach ...
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