Blinding Light - Softcover

Theroux, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0618711961 ISBN 13: 9780618711963

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2006

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date :2006-6-1 Pages: 438 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt From the New York Times best-selling author Paul Theroux. Blinding Light is a slyly satirical novel of manners and mindexpansion Slade Steadman. a writer who has lost. . his chops. setsout for the Ecuadorian jungle with his ex-girlfriend in search ofinspiration and a rare hallucinogen The drug. once found. heightens both his powers of perception and his libido. but it alsoleaves him with an unfortunate side effect: periodic blindness. Unable to resist the insights that enable him to write again. Steadman spends the next year of his life in thrall to hispsychedelic muse and his erotic fantasies. with consequences thatare both ecstatic and disastrous Contents:. Drug TourBlinding LightThe Book of RevelationBook TourThe Blind Mans WifeThe River of Light

About this title

Product Description:

A washed-up writer sets out for Ecuador's jungle in search of a rare hallucinogen. Traveling amid a gaggle of thrill-seeking tourists, he finds his drug, which heightens both his powers of perception and his libido but leaves him with an unfortunate side effect: periodic blindness. It's a Faustian bargain he is willing to take, as long as it helps him finish his novel.

Review:

"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

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0618711961
• ISBN 13: 9780618711963
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448