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The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro and Other Stories
by Theroux, Paul
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 0618265155
- ISBN 13
- 9780618265152
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About This Item
Hardcover. New. Hardcover New Ships From Canada New in new dust jacket Sewn binding Cloth over boards 304 p Audience: General/trade From Publishers Weekly: Theroux's characteristic haze of exoticism hangs over this uneven collection of two novellas and two stories, ushered in by the gothic title novella, which tells a tale of sexual perversity in Taormina, Sicily, in 1962 Gilford Mariner, a young American artist, is traveling around Italy imagining himself as a hero in an Antonioni movie But when he encounters a rich German countess ("'"the Grafin"'") and her consort, Haroun, a Chaldean doctor, the movie turns into a Visconti: baroque, kinky and slightly kitschy Haroun pays for Mariner to become the Gr fin's lover, an alternately arousing and demeaning chore from which Mariner is only released when Haroun reveals the countess's "'"secret "'" In the four parts of "'"A Judas Memoir, "'" Andy, the narrator, is a preteen Catholic in Medford, Mass, in an era when sexual repression meant something: the 1940s
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- Bookseller
- Pine Tree Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9506701335
- Title
- The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro and Other Stories
- Author
- Theroux, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0618265155
- ISBN 13
- 9780618265152
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- This edition first published
- 2004-01-12
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