Blinding Light - Softcover
Slade Steadman is the author of a world-famous travel book, but has struggled to match its success for the past thirty years. A journey downriver in a remote eastern province of Ecuador gives him the experience he has been seeking - and a miracle drug, which induces temporary blindness. On his return to the USA, Steadman is rejuvenated - able not only to write and remember, but granted an almost uncanny prescience, bordering on second sight...
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"Theroux has long been the most exciting contemporary practitioner of a literary tradition honed to elegantly crafted terseness by Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene. Always a terrific teller of tales and conjurer of exotic locales, he writes lean prose that lopes along at a compelling pace."
- "Sunday Times (U.K.)
"As an exploration of the visual rhetoric that dominates Western thinking about creativity and knowledge, especially knowledge of self, "Blinding Light is a bravura performance...an enjoyable and worldly allegory of the pitfalls of literary success."
-"The "New York Times
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- "Sunday Times (U.K.)
"As an exploration of the visual rhetoric that dominates Western thinking about creativity and knowledge, especially knowledge of self, "Blinding Light is a bravura performance...an enjoyable and worldly allegory of the pitfalls of literary success."
-"The "New York Times
Paul Theroux has written many works of fiction and travel writing, including the modern classics The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, My Secret History and The Mosquito Coast. Paul Theroux divides his time between Cape Cod and the Hawaiian islands.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 014101573X
- ISBN 13 9780141015736
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages448
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