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Indlæser... My Other Life (udgave 1996)af Paul Theroux
Work InformationMy Other Life af Paul Theroux
   Best Books Set in London (101) Fiction For Men (83) Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog.  mbmackay | Nov 28, 2015 |  After Riding the Iron Rooster and My Secret History I would like to find time to read more of Theroux. If I find it in a 2nd hand store I will snap it up. Till then sits in my wishlist  velvetink | Mar 31, 2013 | When I first picked up this book, I had never read any of Paul Theroux's work, but I heard him interviewed and was intrigued by his description of the book. It is a fascinating examination of his life, and what it could have looked like at several junctures had things been different. This is an entertaining and unique work... definitely give it a try! (  ) uh8myzen | Apr 17, 2011 | I didn't want to like this book because I'd heard/read unpleasant things about Paul Theroux (but couldn't remember what). I grabbed it off my shelves when nothing else appealed and I needed something to read. It surprised me. I've really enjoyed his writing style - a mixture of internal voice and reflection and external description and ability to evoke a place. However, as I read more I beginning to really dislike the main character - whether you believe this book is some what autobiographical or purely fiction, I'm to the point where I don't know if I can finish it because I'm finding "Paul" an unpleasant person to spend time with. Maybe that's a sign of good writing, but just don't like him. (Read June 2008) (  ) sistersticks | Jul 26, 2008 | I found myself totally immersed in the first section about the time in the leper village as a Peace Corp volunteer. I was, of course, utterly convinced that it was autobiographical, and remain convinced about the rest of this "novel". A travel writer reveals so much about himself in other works, why not this one? If this is not his "secret life", but rather his "other life", then this is the stuff that is no secret! Beautifully written, whatever the truth is, with a control of language that manages to evoke the dry dustiness of African savanna, or the dripping humidity of equatorial Asia, or the brittleness of London society matrons. If you like Theroux's travel writing, you will like this. (  )2  saliero | Jun 24, 2007 |
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. Mr. Theroux allows for a slanting light of self-mockery, as, for example, when he portrays Paul in psychotherapy after the trauma of his separation from his wife, or when he makes a pass at a women who has his books on her shelf and fantasizes about meeting their author but doesn't know that that is the person trying to seduce her. And of course Paul Theroux the character pays dearly for his large life's mistakes. Yet throughout one senses that Mr. Theroux is concealing more than he reveals. He is a literary Marlboro Man, coolly traveling through the commotion of a philistine and foolish world, and that is the mask that one wishes he would strip away. Tilhører ForlagsserienИллюминатор (41)
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). No library descriptions found. |
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