My Other Life by Paul Theroux
By Paul TherouxThe fictional narrator of these memoirs, a man of different guises, be it Pavel Medved, Paulie, or Paul Theroux, has reconstructed his past, giving it wit and life, tragedy and pathos, and imposed an order on it through careful editing. Inordinately fond of train travel, he takes us on a journey over a career spanning thirty years and distills it into poignant episodes. From his early education by his eccentric Uncle Hal, an unlikely author and lover of dog biscuits, we are taken through Theroux's years as a fledgling novelist in literary London, under the wing of the rapacious Lady Max, to his grief at finding himself along again, at age fifty, in the town of his youth.
With enormous insight and self-knowledge Theroux divulges his belief in secrets: the fake occupations he has given himself - particle physicist, cartographer, teacher; the false names with which he has misled people; the absurd events of his life, including a run-in with a deluded fan who has recommended to him the writings of the more famous Paul Theroux; and his uncanny meeting with an elderly German writer whose life has almost exactly mirrored his own.
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Book details
- Hardcover
- 456 pages
- English
- 039582527X
- 9780395825273
About Paul Theroux
paul edward theroux is an american travel writer and novelist, whose best known work is the great railway bazaar (1975), a travelogue about a trip he made Read More about Paul Theroux
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