The Collected Short Novels: Murder in Mount Holly;the Greenest Island;Doctor Slaughter;Dr Demarr;Bottom Feeders;the Rat Room - Softcover

Theroux, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140250425 ISBN 13: 9780140250428

Publisher: Penguin, 1999

Synopsis

Here in Theroux's short novels we encounter the full breadth of his fictional world: from a pair of post-adolescent malcontents hiding from their future to a vulnerable, ageing stripper and single mother who finds God; from a soulless American lawyer who forgoes US citizenship for the sake of profit to a beautiful young academic who works as a researcher by day and an escort by night; and from a motley band of criminals to a set of identical twins fated to orchestrate their own self-destruction. From London to Singapore to Massachusetts, Theroux's characters struggle with indeterminate, and often cruel, destinies. Spanning the whole of Theroux's career, this collection is compulsively readable.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Synopsis:

This collection of Theroux's short novels span his fictional world: from a pair of post-adolescent malcontents hiding from their future to a vulnerable ageing stripper and single mother who finds God. Theroux's characters struggle with indeterminate, and often cruel, destinies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0140250425
• ISBN 13: 9780140250428
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448