The Stranger At the Palazzo D'Oro And Other Stories
by Theroux, Paul
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0618265155
- ISBN 13
- 9780618265152
- Seller
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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
- Isaiah Thomas Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU1006449
- Title
- The Stranger At the Palazzo D'Oro And Other Stories
- Author
- Theroux, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0618265155
- ISBN 13
- 9780618265152
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- 0618265155
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