The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro and Other Stories
by Theroux, Paul
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- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0241141974
- ISBN 13
- 9780241141977
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Synopsis
"This is my only story. Now that I am sixty I can tell it." He, the narrator, was a twenty-one-year-old art student traveling the world. She was a countess -- apparently cold, haughty, and inaccessible -- traveling with Haroun, her ambiguous companion. When the young man makes their acquaintance at a hotel in Sicily, he finds himself filled with unexpected lust and playing a part in something he doesn't quite understand. Filled with Theroux's typically effortless but devastating descriptions of people and places, The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro is a brilliant portrayal of aging and decay, a shocking tale of sensuality in a golden age. The thrill and risk of pursuit and desire mark the accompanying stories of the sexual awakening and rites of passage of a Boston boyhood, the ruin of a writer in Africa, and the bewitchment of a retiree in Hawaii. This is Paul Theroux at his most allusive and wise, writing with a deep understanding of the frailties of men and boys.
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- Bookseller
- Better World Books Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2245669-20
- Title
- The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro and Other Stories
- Author
- Theroux, Paul
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0241141974
- ISBN 13
- 9780241141977
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 2003