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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 04/06/2015
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ISBN: 9780241969373
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Length: 368 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm
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Weight: 255g
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RRP: £9.99
Mr Bones is a sparkling and darkly humorous collection of short stories by bestselling novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux.
A family watches, horrified, as their patriarch transforms into the wise-cracking lead of an old-timey minstrel show. An art collector gleefully destroys his most valuable pieces. A young artist devotes himself to a wealthy, malicious gossip, knowing that it's just a matter of time before she turns on him.
In this new collection of short stories, Paul Theroux explores the tenuous leadership of the elite and the surprising revenge of the overlooked. He shows us humanity possessed, consumed by its own desires, always with his carefully honed eye and the subtle idiosyncrasies that bring his characters to life.
'As cool as Somerset Maugham . . . as observant, intuitive, wry, inventive and eloquent as Graham Greene' Sunday Times
'Theroux is fluent, witty and almost faultlessly able to deliver a satisfying story' Melvyn Bragg
'One of the most accomplished and worldly-wise writers of his generation' The Times
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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 04/06/2015
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ISBN: 9780241969373
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Length: 368 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm
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Weight: 255g
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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Plumbing the depths of eccentricity and violence swilling beneath the surface of ordinary American life, Theroux understands, often with devastating effect, how dramas both big and small can produce catastrophic and lasting psychological consequences
Guardian
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Skilful and unsettling
Independent
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Twenty delicious tales . . . from the off, this collection had me grinning. Scattered with gems infused with Theroux's international knowledge
Big Issue
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Quirky, unpredictable fun and pure literary entertainment
Sunday Sport
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As cool as Somerset Maugham . . . as observant, intuitive, wry, inventive and eloquent as Graham Greene
Sunday Times
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Theroux is fluent, witty and almost faultlessly able to deliver a satisfying story
Melvyn Bragg
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One of the most accomplished and worldly-wise writers of his generation
The Times
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Always a terrific teller of tales and conjurer of exotic locales, he writes lean prose that lopes along at a compelling pace
Sunday Times
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With its unsettling strangeness, precisely drawn characters and geographical sweep, Mr Bones is a psychologically complex, vastly enjoyable and nuanced collection by a writer in complete control of his art
Financial Times
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There's more than a whiff of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness about these tales, by turns savage, funny, unsettling
The Times
