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The collected stories
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The collected stories
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Sixty stories in an international setting. Several deal with the political and amorous adventures of an American diplomat in the Far East, one set in India looks at another culture's meaning of perversion, two are on poets living in London.
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The Elephanta suite
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Publisher's description (from website, September 2007): This startling and satisfying book captures the tumult, ambition, hardship, and serenity that mark today's India. Theroux's characters risk venturing far beyond the subcontinent's well-worn paths to discover woe or truth or peace. A middle-aged couple on vacation veers heedlessly from idyll to chaos. A buttoned-up Boston lawyer finds succor in Mumbai's reeking slums. And a young woman befriends an elephant in Bangalore.
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The stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro : and other stories
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Stories deal with lust, sensuality, and rites of passage as a sixty-year-old man recalls a long ago affair with a countess, a young boy walks in on a woman and her lover, and a retired lawyer in Hawaii fantasizes about his housekeepers.
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The happy isles of Oceania : paddling the Pacific
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Describes the exotic adventures of the author as he kayaks from island to island in the Polynesian Pacific.
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Short story collections
Manuscripts
The short story collections include multiple drafts in various formats (1970-2014); these drafts include notebooks, autograph, typewritten, photocopy, computer generated, and printed. The drafts contain corrections and additions by Paul Theroux, as well as editor's and printer's marks and edits.
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African essays: various drafts
Manuscripts
Includes material written in Uganda, published in various publications or given as lectures: Christopher Okigbo, On the Asians/Hating the Asians, On Cowardice, Robinson Crusoe, Six African Poets, On the Edge of the Great Rift, Burning Grass, Winter in Africa, State of Emergency, An Evening with the Students, The Point of Teaching, The Hardships of Terror, The Wisdom Beyond Politics, The Use of Radio for Teaching in East Africa, First Novels.
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