Paul Theroux, Author . Houghton Mifflin $28 (496p) ISBN 978-0-618-13424-3
"You'll have a terrible time," one diplomat tells Theroux upon discovering the prolific writer's plans to hitch a ride hundreds of miles along a desolate road to Nairobi instead of taking a plane. "You'll have some great...
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Paul Theroux. HMH/Dolan, $28 (400p) ISBN 978-0-544-87030-7
Novelist and travel writer Theroux (Mother Land) is at the top of his game with his third collection of essays, a magisterial grouping of intimate remembrances, globe-trotting adventures, and incisive literary critiques. The 30 essays are culled...
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Paul Theroux. HMH/Dolan, $28 (560p) ISBN 978-0-618-83932-2
The diminutive matriarch of a large Catholic family is the powerful center of Theroux’s engaging novel. Noted for including thinly disguised family and friends among the characters in his stories, Theroux creates an unsparing portrait of Mother, who
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Paul Theroux, photos by Steve McCurry. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $29.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-544-32352-0
Travel writer Theroux (Ghost Train to the Eastern Star) finds the traveling easier and his insights more penetrating in this engrossing passage through the South. Celebrating the wonders of American driving—no more rattle-trap trains or jam-packed...
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Paul Theroux. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-544-32402-2
The 20 stories in the 30th work of fiction from Theroux (The Mosquito Coast) grapple with the all-too-human desire for ownership—of art, of people, of places, even of stories themselves. Through his worldly male narrators, Theroux explores matters...
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Paul Theroux. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-618-83933-9
The dean of travel writers recoils from southern Africa’s heart of darkness in this disillusioned, heartsick travelogue. Theroux (The Great Railway Bazaar; etc.) recounts his back-roads trip from Cape Town to Angola, a valedictory for happier...
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Paul Theroux. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-547-74650-0
Theroux (Hotel Honolulu) draws on personal experience and literary antecedents (think Heart of Darkness) for his latest adventurous tale. Ellis Hock, 62, has a marriage in shambles, an estranged daughter, and a failing business. Hoping to escape the
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Paul Theroux, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-395-90728-3
The subject of considerable attention well ahead of its publication date (which the publisher has now moved up), this frank and revealing study of two writers, longtime friends and mutual supporters, who finally come to a decisive parting of the...
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Paul Theroux, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $23 (243p) ISBN 978-0-395-86029-8
Hong Kong's last British Governor described himself as ""mere flotsam on the tide of history."" Theroux's latest exotic novel (after My Other Life) deals with colonials coping with the imminent return of Hong Kong to China. Middle-aged Neville ""Bunt
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Paul Theroux, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $24.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-395-82527-3
Theroux has previously played with the identity of a novel's protagonist (in My Secret History), but this time his work is considerably more personal and entertaining, if less profound. It is in effect a fictionalized memoir in which the stages of...
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Paul Theroux, Author Putnam Publishing Group $27.5 (509p) ISBN 978-0-399-14108-9
The difference between a tourist and a traveler, says Theroux, is that the tourist knows where he's going. Theroux (The Great Railway Bazaar), a traveler, as half a dozen of his popular books have attested, had no design for this adventure, no...
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Paul Theroux, Author Random House (NY) $24 (437p) ISBN 978-0-679-40247-3
The baggy latest from Theroux ( Chicago Loop ) is both satire and love story, by turns bilious, brutal, gentle and grotesque. Millroy is indeed a magician, but one whose ambitions reach far beyond the crowd-pleasing tricks he performs in the tatty...
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Paul Theroux, Author Putnam Publishing Group $21.95 (511p) ISBN 978-0-399-13424-1
With a title that brings to mind the memoirs of a great spy or double agent, Theroux ( The Mosquito Coast ; Riding the Iron Rooster ) reveals the secret life and divided loyalties that make up a writer's world. The result is a witty and wise...
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Paul Theroux, Author Putnam Publishing Group $21.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-399-13309-1
Theroux (The Old Patagonian Express, The Great Railway Bazaar) spent a year exploring China by train, and his impressions about what has and has not changed in the country, as gathered in hundreds of conversations with Chinese citizens, make up a...
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Paul Theroux, Author Putnam Publishing Group $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-13186-8
Theroux's view of humanity is becoming increasingly bleak even as he stretches his reach with this novel that brilliantly depicts the world as it may become. In the not-too-distant future, America has turned into a police state and a rigidly class-ob
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Paul Theroux, Author Viking Books $29.95 (672p) ISBN 978-0-670-86127-9
Best known for his novels and travel writing, Theroux (My Other Life; The Pillars of Hercules) has also been a prolific writer of short fiction throughout his career. Like his longer works, his stories unfold in settings ranging from England to...
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Paul Theroux, Author Ivy Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8041-1161-4
The secret life of a successful Chicago real-estate developer who murders a woman he meets through a personal ad is the subject of Theroux's forceful and disturbing novel. (Jan.)
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Paul Theroux, Author Ivy Books $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8041-0514-9
This ``witty and wise portrait of a writer as he travels the globe searching for self-understanding'' introduces Andrew Parent, a narcissist with secrets and hidden emotions. ``In his exploration of the ambiguities of love and art, Theroux has...
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Paul Theroux, Author Washington Square Press $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-60289-5
Half Moon Street, the first of these two short novels, stars Dr. Lauren Slaughter, a young, brilliant, beautiful American in London who signs up with an ""escort service'' to prove to an ugly man she barely knows that she will ``do just about...
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Paul Theroux, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $27 (480p) ISBN 978-0-618-03406-2
In the 15 years since his first collection, Sunrise with Seamonsters, novelist and travel writer Theroux has gotten around. He's sailed the Yangtze River in China, crossed the U.S. in the comfort of a private rail car and camped during an ice storm...
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Paul Theroux, Author Putnam $24.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-399-13726-6
Despite the euphoric title, Oceania as Theroux ( Riding the Iron Rooster ) experienced it was only occasionally a carefree paradise. In the Trobriand Islands, celebrated by anthropologists for their supposed sexual freedom, the novelist and travel...
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Paul Theroux, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $26 (279p) ISBN 978-0-547-26024-2
The prolific and well-traveled Theroux follows Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
with a crime novel set in India. Jerry Delfont, a middle-aged travel writer, has ended up in Calcutta with no stories, no ideas, and no clear direction until he receives
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Paul Theroux, Author . Houghton Mifflin $28 (496p) ISBN 978-0-618-41887-9
Acclaimed travel writer and novelist Theroux hasn’t lost his affection for trains, but his view of the scenery outside has darkened in his latest odyssey. Reprising the itinerary of his 1973 The Great Railway Bazaar
(with a detour around Iran
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Paul Theroux, Author . Houghton Mifflin $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-618-94332-6
The dismayed, disoriented American travelers in this trio of stereotype-shattering novellas from Theroux (following Blinding Light
) lament the missing “solemn pieties” and “virtuous peasants” of the India they read about in...
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Paul Theroux, Author . Houghton Mifflin $26 (438p) ISBN 978-0-618-41886-2
Theroux's antihero, Slade Steadman, chronicled his renegade days of globetrotting without the aid of a passport in the bestselling Trespassing
—20 years ago. Living luxuriously off royalties on Martha's Vineyard, he has been struggling
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Paul Theroux, Author . Houghton Mifflin $23 (304p) ISBN 978-0-618-26515-2
Theroux's characteristic haze of exoticism hangs over this uneven collection of two novellas and two stories, ushered in by the gothic title novella, which tells a tale of sexual perversity in Taormina, Sicily, in 1962. Gilford Mariner, a young...
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A tinted review in adult Forecasts indicates a book that we believe is of paramount interest to our readers but that hasn't received a starred or boxed review. HOTEL HONOLULUPaul Theroux. Houghton Mifflin, $26 (432p) ISBN 0-618-14613-XScrappy,...
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Paul Theroux, Author, Jason Epstein, Editor Random House Inc $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-40188-9
A parable of particularly male madness, Theroux's forceful, disturbing novel follows to their farthest reaches the compulsions of a successful Chicago real-estate developer who lives in the suburbs with his wife, a model, and their infant son....
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Paul Theroux, Author, Nancy Ellison, Author Stewart, Tabori, & Chang $45 (176p) ISBN 978-1-58479-378-6
It's fitting that the photographs in this oversized volume are matte, not glossy, and that they don't initially overwhelm viewers with exuberant displays of glitz. Rather, like the place they depict, the photos are refined, somewhat muted and...
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Paul Theroux, Author, Steve McCurry, Photographer, Paul Theroux, Introduction by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (143p) ISBN 978-0-395-39390-1
In 82 attention-holding illustrations, McCurry shows people, stations and landscapes that he and Theroux saw while traveling in a succession of 11 trains from northwestern Pakistan, through northern India, to the southeastern corner of Bangladesh,...
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Paul Theroux. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30 (448p) ISBN 978-0-544-86647-8
Travel writer Theroux (Deep South) finds a Mexico that’s vibrant but shadowed by violence, corruption, and America in this dark-edged but ultimately hopeful travelogue. Theroux shudders at Mexico’s soulless northern border cities, their touristy...
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Paul Theroux. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-0-358-44628-6
In Theroux’s immersive surfing bildungsroman (after Mother Land), a 60-something Triple Crown legend accidentally kills a homeless man with his car, and looks back on his life. Ten-year-old Joe Sharkey arrives in Hawaii with his father, a Special...
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Paul Theroux. Mariner, $28.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-358-71689-1
Theroux (The Mosquito Coast) cranks the nastiness to 11 in this powerful tale of a decades-long sibling rivalry. The story is narrated by Cal Belanger, 56, a globe-trotting geologist with a successful prospecting business. Cal loathes Frank, who...
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Paul Theroux. Mariner, $30 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-329754-8
The stellar latest from Theroux (The Bad Angel Brothers) frames an insightful portrait of a young George Orwell (1903–1950) within a scathing depiction of British colonialism. The novel opens with an epigraph from Orwell’s Burmese Days: “There is a...
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