My Other Life

In the Washington Post Book World, Sven Birkerts called this exuberant novel "e;a complex and gripping work of invention and confession . . . I understood again how the prose of a true writer can bring us to a world beyond."e; The book spans almost thirty years in the life of a fictional "e;Paul Theroux,"e; who moves through young bachelorhood in Africa, in and out of marriage, affairs, and employment, and between continents. It's a wry, worldly, erotic, and deeply moving account of one man's first half century - "e;among the strongest things Theroux has ever written"e; (New York Times Book Review).