Theroux, Paul (Vol. 8) - Theroux, Paul 1941–
Theroux, Paul 1941–
Theroux is an American novelist, poet, short story writer, critic, and travel writer. His work is wonderfully evocative of place, a quality no doubt enhanced by his observations during his many and frequent travels. (See also CLC, Vol. 5, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 33-36.)
One of the most interesting of younger American writers is Paul Theroux, whose novels Girls at Play and Saint Jack were well-received by critics in both the United States and England. If he is not so well-known among general readers as he is among critics, and his fellow-writers, it may be partly because his fiction is located outside the territorial boundaries of the United States—in the Far East, in Russia, in Africa, and in England. The Black House is a mysterious work: it is ostensibly set in a small English village in the Dorset country side, and at the same time it is set—psychologically—in Uganda, in an...
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