Blinding Light - Hardcover
Slade Steadman's lone opus, published twenty years ago, was Trespassing, a cult classic about his travels through dozens of countries without benefit of passport. With his soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend Ava in tow, Steadman sets out for Ecuador's jungle in search of a rare hallucinogenic drug and the cure for his writer's block. Amid a gang of thrill-seeking tourists, he finds his drug and his inspiration but is beset with an unnerving side effect - periodic blindness. His world is altered profoundly: Ava stays by his side, he writes an erotic, autobiographical novel with the drug serving as muse, and he returns to stardom.
Steadman becomes addicted to the drug and the insights it provides, only to have them desert him, along with his sight. Will he regain his vision? His visions? Or will he forgo the world of his imagining and his ambition?
Steadman becomes addicted to the drug and the insights it provides, only to have them desert him, along with his sight. Will he regain his vision? His visions? Or will he forgo the world of his imagining and his ambition?
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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’s highly acclaimed novels include Blinding Light, Hotel Honolulu, My Other Life, Kowloon Tong, and The Mosquito Coast. His renowned travel books include Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Dark Star Safari, Riding the Iron Rooster, The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, and The Happy Isles of Oceania. He lives in Hawaii and on Cape Cod.
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0618418865
- ISBN 13 9780618418862
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages438
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