My Other Life by Paul Theroux

My Other Life by Paul Theroux

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A collection of short memoirs that blur the lines between biography and fiction as award-winning writer imagines what his life would have been like had he made different choices. It is an account of another life, of other choices - of turning fact into fiction.

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My Other Life by Paul Theroux

My Other Life is a compelling collection of short memoirs that blur the lines between biography and fiction as award-winning writer Paul Theroux imagines what his life would have been like had he made different choices. 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 American travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his novels and collected short stories, The Collected Stories, My Secret History, The Lower River, The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro, A Dead Hand, Millroy the Magician, The Elephanta Suite, Saint Jack, The Consul's File, The Family Arsenal, The Mosquito Coast, and his works of non-fiction, including the iconic The Great Railway Bazaar are available from Penguin
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. He won the Edward Stanford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing 2020. Paul Theroux divides his time between Cape Cod and the Hawaiian islands.
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ISBN 13 9780241950517
ISBN 10 0241950511
Titel My Other Life
Autor Paul Theroux
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Penguin Books Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr 2011-02-03
Seitenanzahl 512
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