FICTION
Released: May 22, 2012
"Theroux has recaptured the sweep and density of his 1981 masterpiece The Mosquito Coast. That's some achievement. "
A joyful return to Africa turns into a nightmare for the elderly American protagonist of Theroux's extraordinary novel.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 26, 2011
"Alternatively pious and irreverent, this is an uneasy almanac of favorite quotes and advice for the would-be tourist that broadly features travel as a trope for personal enlightenment."
From prolific travel writer and novelist Theroux (
A Dead Hand, 2011, etc.), an eclectic compendium of travel-related trivia, quotes, quips and advice.
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 11, 2010
"A novel of extremes--rationality and obsession, humanitarianism and selfishness, ecstasy and heartlessness."
NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 18, 2008
"Fans of Theroux will say that he hasn't lost his touch; the more critical will say that he breaks no new ground. Either way, worth looking into."
Travel writer and novelist Theroux (
The Elephanta Suite, 2007, etc.) offers an elegiac retracing of roads and railroads taken across the vastness of Eurasia.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 26, 2007
"Whether they realize it or not, Theroux's characters are all seekers, and all of them wind up on paths much different from those they originally imagined."
Three brilliant, loosely concatenated stories, all set in India and all about spiritual quests.
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FICTION
Released: June 1, 2005
"Blinding Light fails to dazzle, or even illuminate. "
Theroux's 40th book is the novel writers usually produce early in their careers: a Portrait of the Artist as Unregenerate Egomaniac.
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 12, 2004
"Material that still leaves you wishing Theroux would chuck the imagineering and get his cantankerous self back on the road."
From Theroux the wanderer, the story of a wandering American who becomes a German aristocrat's concubine, and other, lesser, tales.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 28, 2003
"Engagingly written, sharply observed: another winner from Theroux."
America's master traveler (
Fresh Air Fiend, 2000, etc.) takes us along on his wanderings in tumultuous bazaars, crowded railway stations, desert oases, and the occasional nicely appointed hotel lobby.
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FICTION
Released: May 9, 2001
"If you can get past the false modesty of the narrator, whose allusions to his discarded fame only make him sound smug, there's wonder on every floor of the Hotel Honolulu."
"We're multistory," explains Buddy Hamstra, owner of the Hotel Honolulu, describing in a word not only the setting but the narrative structure of Theroux's tale of a burned-out, middle-aged writer seeking salvation at the edge of paradise.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 8, 2000
"A feast for both Theroux aficionados and those lucky enough to experience his distinctive world-view and evocative prose for the first time. (Author tour)"
The prolific Theroux (Sir Vidia's Shadow, 1998, etc.) gives full vent to his wanderlust in this virtuoso collection of travel essays, all but one of which were written after his prior aggregation, Sunrise With Seamonsters (1984).
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 15, 1998
The detailed story of a long, top-heavy friendship that took a sudden nosedive, from novelist and travel writer Theroux (Kowloon Tong, 1997, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: July 1, 1997
"A varied, powerful, often moving collection, then, by one of our most original and ambitious authors."
The prolific Theroux (My Other Life, 1996, etc.) has published four volumes of short stories.
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FICTION
Released: June 2, 1997
"A strongly imagined melodrama with a lot on its mind, but not the novel it might have been."
The prolific author of, most recently, My Other Life (1996), and many other works set in faraway places, returns to one of his favorite locales—the Far East—in this tense novel about disenchanted Caucasians living in Hong Kong on the eve of that former colony's separation from Britain and its reunification with China.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 23, 1996
"Not one of its author's best books, but frequent infusions of wit and inventiveness rescue it from becoming (what it might otherwise have been) the Cliff's Notes version of the life and career of Paul Theroux. (First serial to the New Yorker & Granta; Book-of-the-Month Club selection; author tour)"
An ``imaginary memoir'' in which its author and other real people become the protagonists of fictional stories, from the prolific novelist and travel writer (Millroy the Magician, 1994; The Pillars of Hercules, 1995, etc.).
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 17, 1995
"As satisfying as a glass of cool wine on a dusty Calabrian afternoon. (Author tour)"
With his effortless writing style, observant eye, and take-no- prisoners approach, Theroux (The Happy Isles of Oceania, 1992, etc.) is in top form chronicling this 18-month circuit of the Mediterranean.
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