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The Stranger at the Palazzo D'Oro and Other Stories
de Theroux, Paul
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa blanda
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0618265155
- ISBN 13
- 9780618265152
- Librería
-
Las Vegas , Nevada, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Boston / New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004 The Advanced Uncorrected Proof for the first Edition. Signed by Paul Theroux directly on the title-page. Book in fine condition.
Sinopsis
"This is my only story. Now that I am sixty I can tell it." He, the narrator, was a twenty-one-year-old art student traveling the world. She was a countess -- apparently cold, haughty, and inaccessible -- traveling with Haroun, her ambiguous companion. When the young man makes their acquaintance at a hotel in Sicily, he finds himself filled with unexpected lust and playing a part in something he doesn't quite understand. Filled with Theroux's typically effortless but devastating descriptions of people and places, The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro is a brilliant portrayal of aging and decay, a shocking tale of sensuality in a golden age. The thrill and risk of pursuit and desire mark the accompanying stories of the sexual awakening and rites of passage of a Boston boyhood, the ruin of a writer in Africa, and the bewitchment of a retiree in Hawaii. This is Paul Theroux at his most allusive and wise, writing with a deep understanding of the frailties of men and boys.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Idler Fine Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 021951
- Título
- The Stranger at the Palazzo D'Oro and Other Stories
- Autor
- Theroux, Paul
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Soft cover
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0618265155
- ISBN 13
- 9780618265152
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston / New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2004
- Palabras clave
- Fiction, Short Stories.
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