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My Other Life

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).

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 464
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780395877524
  • Genres
  • fiction, travel, africa, contemporary, novels, american
  • Release date
  • 1997