Paul Theroux – Mr. Bones (EPUB)
EPUB | 1.09 MB | 368 Pages
Author: Paul Theroux
Language: English
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780544324039
Subjects: Fiction, Literature, American Fiction, Short Stories, 21st Century American Fiction, American Short Stories, Short Story Collections, American Short Stories – 21st Century, Short Stories – Other
“Beneath the deceptive elegance of these stories, land mines lurk, and Theroux detonates them with gusto.” — O, the Oprah Magazine
A family watches their patriarch transform into the singing, wisecracking lead of an old-timey minstrel show. An art collector publicly destroys his most valuable pieces. Two boys stand by as their father wages war on the raccoons living under their house. In this new collection, acclaimed author Paul Theroux shows us humanity possessed, consumed by compulsive desire, always with his carefully honed eye for detail and the subtle idiosyncrasies that bring his characters to life. Searing, dark, and sure to unsettle, Mr. Bones is a stunning display of Theroux’s “fluent, faintly sinister powers of vision and imagination” (The New Yorker).
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