My Other Life - Softcover

Theroux, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0395877520 ISBN 13: 9780395877524

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade), 1997

Synopsis

New from internationally acclaimed travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux a semi-autobiographical work that spans almost 30 years in the life of Theroux's fictional self, who moves through young bachelorhood in Africa, in and out of marriage, affairs and employment, and between continents. "Among the strongest things Theroux has ever written". "New York Times Book Review".

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Review:

"among the strongest things Theroux has ever written" The New York Times

"Theroux's best and most entertaining book to date . . a seriously funny novel" Time Magazine

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A writer's epic account of another life, of other choices - of turning fact into extraordinary fiction . . .

'A memoir; a collection of short stories; an assemblage of fables; an anthology of Theroux: a book in which he is everywhere present, as himself and as someone other . . . Endlessly inventive, beguiling, provocative and insidiously readable' Sunday Telegraph

'Evocative, painstaking, comic, even tender, brilliant. Follows the outline of Theroux's life - teaching in Africa and Singapore, prosperity and marriage in rain-blackened London, catastrophe then flight to the Pacific's sunnier shores - each chapter is plotted as a dramatic confrontation' Guardian

'A great pleasure and a bit of a tease. Theroux is fluent, witty and almost faultlessly able to deliver a satisfying story' Melvyn Bragg, Literary Review

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About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0395877520
• ISBN 13: 9780395877524
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 456