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16 giu 2024 · Paul Theroux is an American novelist and travel writer known for his highly personal award-winning observations on many locales. Over 50 works of fiction and travel writing include modern classics The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, My Secret History and The Mosquito Coast.
30 mag 2024 · Paul Theroux (“The world’s most perceptive travel writer”—Daily Mail) is the author of many highly acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), The Mosquito Coast (1981), Riding the Iron Rooster (1983), and Mr. Bones: Twenty Stories (2014).
4 giorni fa · His new book, Burma Sahib is the US novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux’s reimagining of the early life of Eric Blair/George Orwell. In attempting this, Theroux has taken on one of the more ...
13 giu 2024 · Paul Theroux: “In the short run, criticism seems to have merit; in the end, criticism is useless—a good book has a long life in spite of anything said about it.” I’m not sure I agree, but I did find this idea somewhat thrilling. The Grit That Makes the Pearl: An Interview With Paul Theroux · thecollidescope.com.
19 giu 2024 · Paul Theroux on Ernest Hemingway. June 19, 2024. “Lord of the Ring” by Paul Theroux. Written in 1971, collected in Sunrise with Seamonsters. Ernest Hemingway imagined himself, as all his admirers now do, a heavy-weight, a literary hard puncher and even physically a formidable opponent.
1 giu 2024 · Travel writer, Paul Theroux has been winning fans for decades with his riveting tales and perceptive insights into the diverse cultures of our planet. With such an extensive collection of works, choosing the best Paul Theroux books can seem like a Herculean task.
4 giorni fa · Paul Theroux’s Burma Sahib is a master class in interiority. Fictionalizing the life of young George Orwell — just leaving his teenage years; stationed in Burma as part of the Indian Imperial Police, and still known as Eric Blair—this novel takes us into the heart and head of the lanky, awkward young man who would eventually write masterpieces such as Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm .
