The Stranger At The Palazzo d'Oro - And Other Stories

Informationen zum Autor Paul Theroux  is the author of many highly acclaimed books. His novels include  Burma Sahib, The Bad Angel Brothers, The Lower River, Jungle Lovers,  and  The Mosquito Coast , and his renowned travel books include  Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, On the Plain of Snakes,  and  Dark Star Safari . He lives in Hawaii and on Cape Cod. Klappentext From the best-selling author of Dark Star Safari and Hotel Honolulu, Paul Theroux's latest offers provocative tales of memory and desire. The sensual story of an unusual love affair leads the collection. The thrill and risk of pursuit and conquest mark the accompanying stories, which tell of the sexual awakening and rites of passage of a Boston boyhood, the ruin of a writer in Africa, and the bewitchment of a retiree in Hawaii. Filled with Theroux's typically exquisite yet devastating descriptions of people and places, The Stranger at the Palazzo D'Oro evokes "the complexities of matters of the heart with subtlety and grace" (People).

Product details

• Authors: Paul Theroux
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.10.2004
• EAN: 9780618485338
• ISBN: 978-0-618-48533-8
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), FICTION: Anthologies (multiple authors)