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Paul theroux was born in medford, massachusetts, in 1941. Stephen king on paul therouxs portrait of a truly horrible. My other life is a compelling collection of short memoirs that blur the lines between biography and fiction as awardwinning writer paul theroux imagines what his life would have been like had he made different choices. The old patagonian express book also available for read online, mobi, docx and mobile and kindle reading. It is one of the few theroux books that i could not get through and had to set aside. When the story was incorporated into therouxs novel, my other life 1996, the wife was renamed alison, and.
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