Saint Jack
A Novel
On Sale: 10/21/2014
Saint Jack
A Novel
On Sale: 10/21/2014
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About the Book
Jack Flowers knew he needed to shake things up when he jumped into the Straits of Malacca and hitched a ride to Singapore. Deftly identifying the fastest route to fame along the seedy port, Jack starts hiring girls out to lonely tourists, sailors, bachelors — anyone with some loose change and a wandering eye — soon making enough money to open two pleasure palaces. But just as Jack is finally coming into his own, a shocking tumble toward the brink of death leaves him shaken, desperate to pull himself up to greatness. Depressed and vulnerable, he’s quick to do business with Edwin Shuck, a powerful American working to take down an unsuspecting general. Marked with Paul Theroux’s trademark biting humor and audacious prose, Saint Jack is a gripping work from an award-winning author.Critical Praise
"Paul Theroux is without peer as the merciless obituarist of colonialism. He knows his way matchlessly about the milieu where no-one was ever at home, while having forgotten any other home. Dunroamin, a whore-house that is the pride of Jack Flowers, the 'Saint Jack' of his latest novel, is its perfect expression. Theroux novels are neither apologia nor accusation; wit is his rare medium, and that lays both bare." —Nadine Gordimer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature —
-Product Details
- ISBN: 9780544339958
- ISBN 10: 0544339959
- Imprint: Mariner Books
- On Sale: 10/21/2014
- Pages: 256
- List Price:18.50 CAD
- BISAC1 : FICTION / Romance / Historical / American
- BISAC2 : FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
- BISAC3 : FICTION / Thrillers / Political
- BISAC4 : FICTION / Thrillers / Crime
- BISAC5 : LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General
- BISAC6 : FICTION / Contemporary Women
- BISAC7 : FICTION / Crime
- BISAC8 : FICTION / Political
- BISAC9 : FICTION / Literary
