My Other Life

In the Washington Post Book World Sven Birkerts called this exuberant novel 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. The book spans almost thirty years in the life of a fictional Paul Theroux 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 - among the strongest things Theroux has ever written (New York Times Book Review).