Strangers Ourselves: The Adventures of Paul Theroux (Paperback)

~ John Mowat (Author)

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Product Description

A must-read for admirers of Paul Theroux, wanting a deeper understanding of his work.

About the Author

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 164 pages
• Publisher: Frog Book; 1st edition (December 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 8188811939
• ISBN-13: 978-8188811939
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,012,202 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worthless attempt at "literary" criticism, December 19, 2008

By	Michael A. Duvernois (Minneapolis, MN United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

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.

14 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Strangers Ourselves: The Adventures of Paul Theroux, August 21, 2008

By	william briscoe "Paul Theroux "Bill"" (Windsor, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

[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.

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