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My Secret History: A Novel
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My Secret History: A Novel

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‘Written with a rare intensity of both intelligence and feeling

… a superbly realistic evocation of the journeys (both dark and comical) of the human heart’

Salman Rushdie, Observer

‘Nothing on the shelf has quite prepared the reader for My Secret History

… Parent saunters into the book aged fifteen, shouldering a .22 Mossberg rifle as earlier, more innocent American heroes used to tote a fishing pole. In his pocket is a paperback translation of Dante’s Inferno

… He is a creature of naked and unquenchable ego, greedy for sex, money, experience, another life’

Jonathan Raban, Observer

‘Theroux’s best creation, a character who is honest enough to know that he wants it both ways- to be the lover and also the solitary observer who betrays his loves by turning them into stories’

Time

‘Theroux’s best fiction to date

… combines the surfaces of memoir and travelogue with cunning fiction’

Sunday Times

‘Sharp, exact, very evocative

… both disturbing and entertaining’

Anthony Burgess, Independent

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
13 April 2011
Pages
576
ISBN
9780241950494

‘Written with a rare intensity of both intelligence and feeling

… a superbly realistic evocation of the journeys (both dark and comical) of the human heart’

Salman Rushdie, Observer

‘Nothing on the shelf has quite prepared the reader for My Secret History

… Parent saunters into the book aged fifteen, shouldering a .22 Mossberg rifle as earlier, more innocent American heroes used to tote a fishing pole. In his pocket is a paperback translation of Dante’s Inferno

… He is a creature of naked and unquenchable ego, greedy for sex, money, experience, another life’

Jonathan Raban, Observer

‘Theroux’s best creation, a character who is honest enough to know that he wants it both ways- to be the lover and also the solitary observer who betrays his loves by turning them into stories’

Time

‘Theroux’s best fiction to date

… combines the surfaces of memoir and travelogue with cunning fiction’

Sunday Times

‘Sharp, exact, very evocative

… both disturbing and entertaining’

Anthony Burgess, Independent

Read More
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
13 April 2011
Pages
576
ISBN
9780241950494