Paul Theroux – The Lower River (EPUB)
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Title: The Lower River
Author: Paul Theroux
Language: English
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780547746913
Subjects: Fiction, Literature, American Fiction, Peoples & Cultures – Fiction, Fiction Subjects, Literary Fiction, 21st Century American Fiction, African Peoples & Cultures – Fiction & Literature, Character Types – Fiction, Phases of Life – Fiction, Settings & Atmosphere – Fiction, African Peoples – Fiction, Dreamers – Fiction, Middle Age – Fiction, Rural Settings – Fiction
Author: Paul Theroux
Language: English
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780547746913
Subjects: Fiction, Literature, American Fiction, Peoples & Cultures – Fiction, Fiction Subjects, Literary Fiction, 21st Century American Fiction, African Peoples & Cultures – Fiction & Literature, Character Types – Fiction, Phases of Life – Fiction, Settings & Atmosphere – Fiction, African Peoples – Fiction, Dreamers – Fiction, Middle Age – Fiction, Rural Settings – Fiction
“[Hock] knows he is ensorcelled by exoticism, but he can’t help himself. And, as things go from bad to worse and the pages start to turn faster, neither can we. A.”—Entertainment Weekly
When he was a young man, Ellis Hock spent four of the best years of his life with the Peace Corps in Malawi. So when his wife of forty-two years leaves him, he decides to return to the village where he was stationed in search of the happiness he’d been missing since he left. But what he finds is not what he expected. The school he built is a ruin, the church and clinic are gone, and poverty and apathy have set in among the people.
They remember Ellis and welcome him with open arms. Soon, however, their overtures turn menacing; they demand money and refuse to let him leave the village. Is his new life an escape or a trap?
“Theroux’s bravely unsentimental novel about a region where he began his own grand career should become part of anybody’s education in the…
When he was a young man, Ellis Hock spent four of the best years of his life with the Peace Corps in Malawi. So when his wife of forty-two years leaves him, he decides to return to the village where he was stationed in search of the happiness he’d been missing since he left. But what he finds is not what he expected. The school he built is a ruin, the church and clinic are gone, and poverty and apathy have set in among the people.
They remember Ellis and welcome him with open arms. Soon, however, their overtures turn menacing; they demand money and refuse to let him leave the village. Is his new life an escape or a trap?
“Theroux’s bravely unsentimental novel about a region where he began his own grand career should become part of anybody’s education in the…
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