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: 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: 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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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: 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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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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