My Other Life
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0395877520 / Publisher: Mariner Books, September 1997
A novel in the guise of an autobiography follows a disaffected novelist's journey from a career in London under the wing of an eccentric mentor to a solitary return to his hometown
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In the Washington Post Book World, Sven Birkerts called this exuberant novel "a complex and gripping work of invention and confession . . . I understood again how the prose of a true writer can bring us to a world beyond." The book spans almost thirty years in the life of a fictional "Paul Theroux," who moves through young bachelorhood in Africa, in and out of marriage, affairs, and employment, and between continents. It's a wry, worldly, erotic, and deeply moving account of one man's first half century - "among the strongest things Theroux has ever written" (New York Times Book Review).
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