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Theroux, Paul My Secret History 1989 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1083603. ISBN #0399134247 / 9780399134241. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Theroux, Paul My Secret History 1989 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1083603. ISBN #0399134247 / 9780399134241. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "Theroux's best novel in years." CHICAGO TRIBUNE MY SECRET HISTORY is Paul Theroux's tour de force. It is the story of Andre Parent, a writer, a world traveler, a lover of every kind of woman he chances to meet in a life as varied as a man can lead. From his days as an altar boy, to his job as a teenaged lifeguard, and then as a youth caught between the attentions of a beautiful young student and an amorous older woman. And as the boy becomes a man he turns his attention to writing, which brings him fame, and a wife, who may finally bring him to know himself. But not before he sets up his most dangerous secret life, one that any man might envy, but that could cost Andre Parent the delicate balance that makes him who he is....
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Theroux, Paul O-Zone Putnam Pub Group 1986 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1151128. ISBN #0399131868 / 9780399131868. (keywords: NOVEL) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Theroux, Paul The Consul's File Houghton Mifflin 1977 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Some Chipping. Book #or927070. ISBN #0395253993 / 9780395253991. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Theroux, Paul The Consul's File Houghton Mifflin 1977 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Some Chipping. Book #or927070. ISBN #0395253993 / 9780395253991. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Award-winning writer Paul Theroux takes us on a journey through small town Malaysia through the eyes of the exuberant Spencer Savage in his breathtaking novel "The Consul's File". Spencer Savage, a young American consul, is posted to Ayer Hitam, a small Malaysian town, in the 1970s. Told to close down this remote outpost in the sweltering jungle, he instead finds himself drawn to the many characters he meets among the Malays, Indians, Japanese, Chinese and the clubbable expat Brits. Through his eyes we see the rich tapestry of multi-ethnic life in post-colonial Malaysia, from adultery to murder, from ghost stories to the murky waters of diplomatic politics. It is a brilliant portrait of a vanished time, a lost landscape and scattered people. "A cool and witty sequence...a polished and professional performance". "Guardian" . "Theroux's writing is at its most adventurous in "The Consul's File". There is no book I can compare this to: Mr Theroux's artistry is individual, serene, yet also grainy with fierce truths". "The Times" . 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, "My Other Life", "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 Family Arsenal", "The Mosquito Coast", and his works of non-fiction, including the iconic "The Great Railway Bazaar" are available from Penguin.
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Theroux, Paul The Lower River Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or968326. ISBN #0547746504 / 9780547746500. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Theroux, Paul The Lower River Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or968326. ISBN #0547746504 / 9780547746500. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Ellis Hock never believed that he would return to Africa. He runs an old-fashioned menswear store in a small town in Massachusetts but still dreams of his Eden, the four years he spent in Malawi with the Peace Corps, cut short when he had to return to take over the family business. When his wife leaves him, and he is on his own, he realizes that there is one place for him to go: back to his village in Malawi, on the remote Lower River, where he can be happy again. Arriving at the dusty village, he finds it transformed: the school he built is a ruin, the church and clinic are gone, and poverty and apathy have set in among the people. They remember him the White Man with no fear of snakes and welcome him. But is his new life, his journey back, an escape or a trap? Interweaving memory and desire, hope and despair, salvation and damnation, this is a hypnotic, compelling, and brilliant return to a terrain about which no one has ever written better than Theroux.
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Theuriet, Andre Woodland Queen hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1102869. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Thiong'o, Ngugi Wa River Between Heinemann 1965 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1146209. ISBN #0435905481 / 9780435905484. (keywords: Kenya Africa White Settlement Tribal Religion Christianity) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Thirlwell, Adam Escape 2010 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1058888. ISBN #0374148783 / 9780374148782. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Thirlwell, Adam Escape 2010 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1058888. ISBN #0374148783 / 9780374148782. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Haffner is charming, morally suspect, vain, obsessed by the libertine emperors. He is British and Jewish and a widower. But Haffner s attachments to his nation, his race, his marriage, have always been matters of conjecture. They have always been subjects of debate. There are many stories of Haffner but this, the most secret, is the greatest of them all. The Escape opens in a spa town snug in the unfashionable eastern Alps, where Haffner has come to claim his wife s inheritance: a villa expropriated in darker times. After weeks of ignoring his task in order to conduct two affairs one with a capricious young yoga instructor, the other with a hungrily passionate married woman he discovers gradually that he wants this villa, very much. Squabbling with bureaucrats and their shadows means a fight, and Haffner wants anything he has to fight for. How can you ever escape your past, your family, your history? That is the problem of Haffner s story in The Escape . That has always been the problem of Haffner and his lifetime of metamorphoses and disappearances. How might Haffner ever become unattached? Through the improvised digressions of his comic couplings and uncouplings emerge the stories of Haffner s century: the chaos of World War II , the heyday of jazz, the postwar diaspora, the uncertain triumph of capitalism, and the inescapability of memory. The Escape is a swift, sad farce of sexual mayhem by a brilliant young novelist The New York Times has called a prodigy and, as such, unstoppable.
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Thomas, Dylan Adventures in the Skin Trade W W Norton & Co Inc 1969 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1151971. ISBN #081120202X / 9780811202022. (keywords: FICTION SHORT STORIES SINGLE AUTHOR) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Thomas, Dylan Adventures in the Skin Trade New Directions 1969 paperback. . Slight moisture damage but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1127069. ISBN #081120202X / 9780811202022. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Thomas, Dylan Adventures in the Skin Trade New Directions 1969 paperback. . Slight moisture damage but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1127069. ISBN #081120202X / 9780811202022. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A story collection full of a fantastic and whimsical assortment of odd characters only Dylan Thomas could have conceived. This collection of the poet Dylan Thomas's fiction and what an extraordinary storyteller he was holds special interest because it ranges from the early stories such as "The School for Witches" and "The Burning Baby," with their powerful inheritance of Welsh mythology and wild imagination, to the chapters he completed before his death of the alas unfinished novel Adventures in the Skin Trade . Adventures is the story, written in a shrewd, sly, deadpan vein of picaresque comedy, of young Samuel Bennet, who runs away from his home in Wales to seek his fortune in London.
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Thomas, Dylan Eight Stories paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1088400. ISBN #0811212459 / 9780811212458. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Thomas, Dylan The Collected Stories New Directions 1986 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1105991. ISBN #0811209989 / 9780811209984. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Thomas, Dylan The Collected Stories New Directions 1986 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1105991. ISBN #0811209989 / 9780811209984. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary This gathering of all Dylan Thomas's stories, ranging chronologically from the dark, almost surrealistic tales of Thomas's youth to such gloriously rumbustious celebrations of life as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Adventures in the Skin Trade, charts the progress of "The Rimbaud of Cwmdonkin Drive" toward his mastery of the comic idiom. Here, too, are stories originally written for radio and television and, in a short appendix, the schoolboy pieces first published in the Swansea Grammar School Magazine . A highpoint of the collection is Thomas's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog , a vivid collage of memories from his Swansea childhood that combines the lyricism of his poetry with the sparkle and sly humor of Under Milk Wood . Also here is the fiction from Quite Early One Morning , a collection planned by Thomas shortly before his death. Altogether there are more than forty stories, providing a rich and varied literary feast and showing Dylan Thomas in all his intriguing variety-somber fantasist, joyous word-spinner, comedian of smalltown Wales. The book includes an entertaining, informative reflection on Thomas by another Welsh poet and storyteller, Leslie Norris, as well as a brief listing of publication details by Professor Walford Davies, editor of Dylan Thomas: Early Prose Works .
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Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall Animal Wife 1990 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1005024. ISBN #0395524539 / 9780395524534. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall Animal Wife 1990 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1005024. ISBN #0395524539 / 9780395524534. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Light years separate Thomas's intelligent, literate fiction from most other novels set in prehistoric times. Exuding authenticity and distinguished by resonant language, this novel, a companion to Reindeer Moon , is likewise set in the savannastet of the Siberian Paleolithic. The narrator, Kori, and his hunter-gatherer people are portrayed as heroic but also fallible, sometimes prey to bad judgment and overwhelming passions. Kori is beset by guilt when he realizes that his shaman father's new wife is pregnant with Kori's child, conceived in secret before his father chose to marry her. Later, seized with lust at the sight of a woman swimming in a pond, he impulsively captures her, putting his group in peril of her people's revenge. The woman, whom he names Muskrat, comes from a tribe whose customs, worship, sexual practices and hunting techniques are different from Kori's. These alien beliefs and mutually incomprehensible languages are as crippling to their relationship as a deep ethnic division is in any time; intolerance and distrust breed bitterness and tragedy. Thomas has a magical feel for the patterns of the natural world integral to the hunter-gather culture. While this novel does not have the heart-tugging poignance of the previous story, it is psychologically acute and soaringly imaginative.
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