Автор: Theroux Paul Название: Hotel Honolulu ISBN: 0618219153 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780618219155 Издательство: Hachette Book Group Цена: 2344.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
In this wickedly satiric romp, Paul Theroux captures the essence of Hawaii as it has never been depicted. The novel`s narrator, a down-on-his-luck writer, escapes to Waikiki and soon finds himself the manager of the Hotel Honolulu, a low-rent establishment a few blocks off the beach. Honeymooners, vacationers, wanderers, mythomaniacs, soldiers, and families all check in to the hotel. Like the Canterbury pilgrims, every guest has come in search of something -- sun, love, happiness, objects of unnameable longing -- and everyone has a story. By turns hilarious, ribald, tender, and tragic, HOTEL HONOLULU offers a unique glimpse of the psychological landscape of an American paradise.
Автор: Theroux Paul Название: Last Train to Zona Verde ISBN: 0241143675 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241143674 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Цена: 1848.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Theroux Paul Название: The Elephanta Suite ISBN: 0547086024 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780547086026 Издательство: Hachette Book Group Цена: 1775.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A master of the travel narrative weaves three intertwined novellas of Westerners transformed by their sojourns in India.
This startling, far-reaching book captures the tumult, ambition, hardship, and serenity that mark today's India. Theroux's Westerners risk venturing far beyond the subcontinent's well-worn paths to discover woe or truth or peace. A middle-aged couple on vacation veers heedlessly from idyll to chaos. A buttoned-up Boston lawyer finds succor in Mumbai's reeking slums. And a young woman befriends an elephant in Bangalore.
We also meet Indian characters as singular as they are reflective of the country's subtle ironies: an executive who yearns to become a holy beggar, an earnest young striver whose personality is rewired by acquiring an American accent, a miracle-working guru, and others.
As ever, Theroux's portraits of people and places explode stereotypes to exhilarating effect. The Elephanta Suite urges us toward a fresh, compelling, and often inspiring notion of what India is, and what it can do to those who try to lose--or find--themselves there.
Автор: Theroux Paul Название: A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta ISBN: 0547394497 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780547394497 Издательство: Hachette Book Group Цена: 1775.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: When Jerry Delfont, an aimless travel writer with writer's block (his "dead hand"), receives a letter from an American philanthropist, Mrs. Merrill Unger, with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son's, he is intrigued. Who is the dead boy, found on the floor of a cheap hotel room? How and why did he die? And what is Jerry to make of a patch of carpet, and a package containing a human hand? He is swiftly captivated by the beautiful, mysterious Mrs. Unger--and revived by her tantric massages--but the circumstances surrounding the dead boy cause him increasingly to doubt the woman's motives and the exact nature of her philanthropy. Without much to go on, Jerry pursues answers from the teeming streets of Calcutta to Uttar Pradesh. It is a dark and twisted trail of obsession and need. Beautifully written, "A Dead Hand" demonstrates the powerful evocation of place and character that has made Paul Theroux one of the most perceptive and engaging writers today.
Автор: Paul Theroux Название: Blinding Light ISBN: 0141026650 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141026657 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Цена: 553.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Paul Theroux Название: The Stranger at the Palazzo d`Oro ISBN: 0141011122 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141011127 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 2111.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A young American walks into Sicily`s Palazzo d`Oro during the `60s. Penniless, but swaggering with youth and burgeoning artistic talent, he accepts a proposition to become the companion to a beautiful and beguiling aristocrat.
Автор: Paul Theroux Название: Saint Jack ISBN: 0241955149 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241955147 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 2111.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Jack Flowers, saint or sinner, caught a passing bumboat into Singapore and got a job as a water-clerk to a Chinese ship chandler. Now, on the side, he offers girls (indeed `anything, anything at all`) to tourists, sailors, residents and expatriates, but he is haunted by his lack of worldly success and his fifty-three years weight heavily on him.
Автор: Paul Theroux Название: The Great Railway Bazaar ISBN: 0141189142 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141189147 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1451.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Gives an account of the author`s journey by rail through Asia. This work describes the many places, cultures, sights and sounds he experienced and the fascinating people he met. It also shows how he is drawn into conversation with fellow passengers, from Molesworth, while avoiding the forceful approaches of pimps and drug dealers.
Автор: Paul Theroux Название: The Consul`s File ISBN: 0241950570 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241950579 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1715.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Spencer Savage, a young American consul, is posted to Ayer Hitam, a small Malaysian town, in the 1970s. Told to close down this remote outpost in the sweltering jungle, he instead finds himself drawn to the many characters he meets among the Malays, Indians, Japanese, Chinese and the clubbable expat Brits.
Автор: Paul Theroux Название: Fresh-air Fiend ISBN: 0241950554 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241950555 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 2243.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Full of encounters and memorable scenes, fascinating and sometimes bizarre locations, and enlightening musings on themes as various as sexual attraction and the point of travel writing itself, this is a collection of shorter pieces.
Автор: Paul Theroux Название: The Lower River ISBN: 0241957745 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241957745 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 2111.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Decades ago Massachusetts salesman Ellis Hock spent four years in Africa - and the continent has never left him. So when his wife walks out and his business goes belly up, Ellis turns back to the one place in which he briefly found happiness. Yet returning to the village of Malabo shocks him. The school he built is a ruin.
Автор: Paul Theroux Название: Blinding Light ISBN: 0618711961 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780618711963 Издательство: Hachette Book Group Цена: 2507.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From the New York Times best-selling author Paul Theroux, Blinding Light is a slyly satirical novel of manners and mind expansion. Slade Steadman, a writer who has lost his chops, sets out for the Ecuadorian jungle with his ex-girlfriend in search of inspiration and a rare hallucinogen. The drug, once found, heightens both his powers of perception and his libido, but it also leaves him with an unfortunate side effect: periodic blindness. Unable to resist the insights that enable him to write again, Steadman spends the next year of his life in thrall to his psychedelic muse and his erotic fantasies, with consequences that are both ecstatic and disastrous.
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