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The Stranger At The Palazzo D'oro And Other Stories
Paul Theroux
出版HarperCollins, 2012-06-22
主題Fiction / LiteraryFiction / Short Stories (single author)Fiction / Anthologies (multiple authors)Fiction / WomenFiction / Romance / Collections & AnthologiesFiction / Erotica / Collections & AnthologiesFiction / Fantasy / Collections & Anthologies
ISBN05473456159780547345611
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=rfA2PaaNfgsC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"This is my only story. Now that I am sixty I can tell it." He, the narrator, was a twenty-one-year-old art student traveling the world. She was a countess -- apparently cold, haughty, and inaccessible -- traveling with Haroun, her ambiguous companion. When the young man makes their acquaintance at a hotel in Sicily, he finds himself filled with unexpected lust and playing a part in something he doesn't quite understand. Filled with Theroux's typically effortless but devastating descriptions of people and places, The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro is a brilliant portrayal of aging and decay, a shocking tale of sensuality in a golden age.
The thrill and risk of pursuit and desire mark the accompanying stories of the sexual awakening and rites of passage of a Boston boyhood, the ruin of a writer in Africa, and the bewitchment of a retiree in Hawaii. This is Paul Theroux at his most allusive and wise, writing with a deep understanding of the frailties of men and boys.