Paul Theroux – The Pillars of Hercules (EPUB)
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Title: The Pillars of Hercules
Author: Paul Theroux
Language: English
Publication date: 1995
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780307790286
Subjects: Travel, Europe – Travel, Travel Essays & Descriptions, Europe – General & Miscellaneous – Travel, World Travelers/ Globetrotters – Travel Essays & Descriptions
Author: Paul Theroux
Language: English
Publication date: 1995
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780307790286
Subjects: Travel, Europe – Travel, Travel Essays & Descriptions, Europe – General & Miscellaneous – Travel, World Travelers/ Globetrotters – Travel Essays & Descriptions
“DAZZLING.”
—Time
“[THEROUX’S] WORK IS DISTINGUISHED BY A SPLENDID EYE FOR DETAIL AND THE TELLING GESTURE; a storyteller’s sense of pacing and gift for granting closure to the most subtle progression of events; and the graceful use of language. . . . We are delighted, along with Theroux, by the politeness of the Turks, amazed by the mountainous highlands in Syria, touched by the gesture of an Albanian waitress who will not let him pay for his modest meal. . . . The Pillars of Hercules [is] engrossing and enlightening from start (a damning account of tourists annoying the apes of Gibraltar) to finish (an utterly captivating visit with Paul Bowles in Tangier, worth the price of the book all by itself).”
—Chicago Tribune
“ENTERTAINING READING . . . WHEN YOU READ THEROUX, YOU’RE TRULY ON A TRIP.”
—The Boston Sunday Globe
“HIS PICARESQUE NARRATIVE IS STUDDED WITH SCENES THAT STICK IN THE MIND. He looks at strangers with a novelist’s…
—Time
“[THEROUX’S] WORK IS DISTINGUISHED BY A SPLENDID EYE FOR DETAIL AND THE TELLING GESTURE; a storyteller’s sense of pacing and gift for granting closure to the most subtle progression of events; and the graceful use of language. . . . We are delighted, along with Theroux, by the politeness of the Turks, amazed by the mountainous highlands in Syria, touched by the gesture of an Albanian waitress who will not let him pay for his modest meal. . . . The Pillars of Hercules [is] engrossing and enlightening from start (a damning account of tourists annoying the apes of Gibraltar) to finish (an utterly captivating visit with Paul Bowles in Tangier, worth the price of the book all by itself).”
—Chicago Tribune
“ENTERTAINING READING . . . WHEN YOU READ THEROUX, YOU’RE TRULY ON A TRIP.”
—The Boston Sunday Globe
“HIS PICARESQUE NARRATIVE IS STUDDED WITH SCENES THAT STICK IN THE MIND. He looks at strangers with a novelist’s…
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