Theroux, Paul [Edward]
Theroux, Paul [Edward]( 1941– ),Massachusetts-born author, resident abroad (1963–72) as a teacher of English in Italy, Malawi, Uganda, and Singapore, began his prolific literary career with Waldo (1966), a comic, surreal novel about eccentric individuals encountered by the title character as he travels after leaving a school for delinquent boys. Later novels include Fong and the Indians (1968), a satiric view of preposterous residents of a new east African country: natives, Chinese, and Americans; Girls at Play (1969), depicting in crueler fashion Afro-Indian, American, and English women schoolteachers in Kenya; Jungle Lovers (1971), set in Malawi and presenting a New England insurance salesman married to a native; Saint Jack (1973), treating people of diverse nations and natures drifting through life in Singapore; The Black House (1974), about an anthropologist returning from Africa to his native...
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