Travelling in circles
Robert Taubman
- The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
Hamish Hamilton, 392 pp, £7.95, October 1981, ISBN 0 241 10688 5
Paul Theroux is the author of The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express. He is better-known for these than for his nine novels. The novels are extraordinarily different from each other, and haven’t given a distinct image of Theroux as a novelist. He has set them in Kenya, Malawi, Singapore, London, Dorset, Cape Cod, and now in Honduras; and produced as many different kinds of novel. Graham Greene ranges as widely, but the Greene themes and style impose them selves; and Theroux has written on V.S. Naipaul’s themes. Apparently his own work doesn’t have the same sort of continuities.
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Vol. 3 No. 22/23 · 3 December 1981 » Robert Taubman » Travelling in circles (print version)
pages 17-18 | 1921 words