Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10 , 1941 ) is an American travel writer and novelist. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 The Great Railway Bazaar (1975) 1.2 The Old Patagonian Express (1979) 1.3 Fresh Air Fiend (2000) 2 External links // Sourced Fiction gives us...
Paul Theroux (born 1941) was an expatriate American writer of numerous works of fiction and of the chronicles of his own travels by train throughout the world. He was a keen observer of the relationships between people and their environments. Paul...
Paul Theroux's novels, short stories, essays, and travel books, in which he often explores the expatriate experience and the postcolonial world of developing countries, have established his reputation as a prodigious and cosmopolitan man of letters....
Paul Theroux has achieved international fame and literary accolades for his travel writings, novels, short stories, poetry, and critical essays. Just as his literary interests shape his travel writings, so do his global travel experiences inform his...
Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10, 1941) is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best known work is The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), a travelogue about a trip he made by train from Great Britain through Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle...
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Paul Theroux 06/05/2005: 353 words, approx. 1 pages
Paul Theroux is never at a loss for words. He has written so many travelogues and novels including The Great Railway Bazaar and The Mosquito Coast, respectively that it's an understatement to call him, at age 64, prolific. And yet the Medford native made...
Paul Theroux is notorious for mixing fact and fiction in his books and refusing to say which is which, but this is nothing beside his slipperiness in interview. The morning we met he weaved around so adroitly, ducking questions with such finesse, I was...
The Famous Therouxs The name Theroux was already well-known when Louis was growing up, as his father is the writer Paul Theroux . His dad's novels, which include "The Mosquito Coast", tend to be set in far-flung locations, and Louis himself was born in Singapore...
Chugging past shaggy yaks and fluffy clouds that look low enough to lasso, the train from Beijing to Lhasa makes its final climb into nosebleed territory pulled by three locomotives instead of the usual one....
In the following review of Fresh Air Fiend, Cussen examines Theroux's attitudes toward aging, his commentaries on other noted travel writers, and his problematic postcolonial views.
In the following essay, Wheeler provides an overview of Theroux's travel writing and fiction, drawing attention to recurring themes and preoccupations that link his work in both genres, including his use of fictional doubles.
