A must-read for admirers of Paul Theroux, wanting a deeper understanding of his work.
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John Mowat was born in 1941 in Los Angeles of British parents but completed his education in Britain. After a short career in journalism, he graduated from the University of Wales, Bangor, and did research on Joseph Conrad under Tony Tanner at King s College, Cambridge. The majority of his career was as a lecturer in American Studies at the University of Hull where he pioneered film studies with a course on John Huston. Mowat has published articles on Saul Bellow, Anthony Burgess and James Joyce as well as a great deal of poetry in small magazines. He is married to a school administrator and they have three daughters. They have a home in Cornwall but for the last three years they have been living in Bangkok and then Delhi.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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Worthless attempt at "literary" criticism,
By Michael A. Duvernois (Minneapolis, MN United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Strangers Ourselves: The Adventures of Paul Theroux (Paperback)
This is a book printed by a micro-sized Indian publisher, do a little search and you'll find this book mentioned in a newspaper article. It's a vanity effort really. Nothing of value to note in the book. It's certainly not a popular book aimed at a "deeper understanding of his work" nor is it serious literary criticism.
If you've read a few Theroux books, and you sat at your laptop writing down your thoughts on those books, you too could publish sometime similar. In fact, the next time I'm traveling on a (slow) train in India I might just do that.
15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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Strangers Ourselves: The Adventures of Paul Theroux,
By william briscoe "Paul Theroux "Bill"" (Windsor, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Strangers Ourselves: The Adventures of Paul Theroux (Paperback)
[This is a terrible book, its title is misleading. If you wish to learn more about Paul Theroux, read his travel books. This is a book of dreary literary criticism.
[ASIN:8188811939 Strangers Ourselves: The Adventures of Paul Theroux]]
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