000			01437nam a2200217 a 4500
001			050668
005			20231009192956.0
008			230627s19961996usa 000 1 eng d
020			_a9780395877524
082	1		_aFIC THE
100	1		_aTheroux, Paul
245	0	4	_aMy other life _c/ Paul Theroux
260			_aBoston _b: A Mariner Book _c, 1996
300			_a456 p. _c; 21 cm
520			_aLife, to the hero of My Other Life, has no apparent plot, so it can seem messier than fiction--sometimes it appears that he is leading many separate lives. The only connecting strand is that they all involve the same person. The fictional narrator of these memoirs, a man of different guises, be it Pavel Medved, Paulie, or Paul Theroux, has reconstructed his past, giving it wit and life, tragedy and pathos, and imposed an order on it through careful editing. Inordinately fond of train travel, he takes us on a journey over a career spanning thirty years and distills it into poignant episodes. From his early education by his eccentric Uncle Hal, an unlikely author and lover of dog biscuits, we are taken through Theroux's years as a fledgling novelist in literary London, under the wing of the rapacious Lady Max, to his grief at finding himself alone again, at age fifty, in the town of his youth.
546			_aEnglish
650		4	_aAlternative history _v--Fiction
655		4	_aFantasy fiction
942			_cMO
999			_c254490 _d254490