Figures in a Landscape: People and Places, Theroux Paul
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: Paul Theroux Название: The Mosquito Coast ISBN: 0241973651 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241973653 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1187.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle. There his tortured, messianic genius keeps them alive, his hoarse tirades harrying them through a diseased and dirty Eden towards unimaginable darkness.
Автор: Theroux Louis Название: The Call of the Weird ISBN: 0330435701 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330435703 Издательство: Pan Macmillan Рейтинг: Цена: 1154.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Louis Theroux makes programmes about off-beat characters on the fringes of US society. Here, he revisits America and the people who have most fascinated him to try to discover what motivates them, why they believe the things they believe, and to find out what has happened to them since he last saw them.
Автор: Paul Theroux Название: Riding the Iron Rooster ISBN: 0140112952 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140112955 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1715.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Paul Theroux left Victoria Station in April thinking that taking eight trains across Europe, Eastern Europe, the USSR and Mongolia would be the easy way to get to the Chinese border. The reality, of course, was very different. In fact, Theroux experienced a decidedly odd and unexpected trip to China that set the challenging tone for his journey.
Автор: Paul Theroux Название: The Collected Stories ISBN: 024195052X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241950524 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1715.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A collection short stories, each of which brimming with astute observations and sharp wit that can captivate readers the world over. It explores the blighted territory of a failing marriage; the tangled jungle of a mad poet`s secret anti-Semitism; and the belated sexual guilt of a Hindu.
Автор: Theroux, Paul Название: Deep South ISBN: 0241969352 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241969359 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1715.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Deep South of America is a place of contradictions. There is the warm, open spirit of the soul food cafes, found in every town, no matter how small. There is the ruined grandeur of numberless ghostly towns, long abandoned by the industries that built them. This book is about this place.
Автор: Paul Theroux Название: The Tao of Travel ISBN: 0141044268 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141044262 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1451.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A compendium of travel writing from a master traveller. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, it celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped the author, as a reader and a traveller.
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: Theroux Paul Название: Mother Land ISBN: 1328915824 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781328915825 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 2206.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: "Theroux possesses a fabulously nasty sense of humor."--Stephen King
"Theroux's prose is suitably silky in its insinuations and vicious in its ability to claw."--Boston Globe
To those in her Cape Cod town, Mother is an exemplar of piety, frugality, and hard work. To her husband and seven children, she is a selfish, petty tyrant. She excels at playing her offspring against each other. Her favorite, Angela, died in childbirth; only Angela really understands her, she tells the others. The others include the officious lawyer, Fred; the uproarious professor, Floyd; a pair of inseparable sisters whose devotion to Mother has consumed their lives; and JP, the narrator, a successful writer whose work she disparages. As she lives well past the age of 100, her brood struggles with and among themselves to shed her viselike hold on them.
Mother Land is a piercing portrait of how a parent's narcissism impacts a family. While the particulars of his tale are unique, Theroux encapsulates with acute clarity and wisdom a circumstance that is familiar to millions of readers.
Автор: Theroux, Louis Название: Call of the weird ISBN: 1509893288 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781509893287 Издательство: Pan Macmillan Рейтинг: Цена: 1269.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A funny, insightful journey into what is so wonderfully weird about America by award-winning documentary film maker Louis Theroux.
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