Mr. Bones : twenty stories / Paul Theroux.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Theroux, Paul.

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American.

Genre:

Short stories, American.

Short stories.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

359 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

20 stories

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.

Summary:

"A dark and bitingly humorous collection of short stories from the "brilliantly evocative" (Time) Paul Theroux A family watches in horror as their patriarch transforms into the singing, wise-cracking lead of an old-timey minstrel show. A renowned art collector relishes publicly destroying his most valuable pieces. Two boys stand by helplessly as their father stages an all-consuming war on the raccoons living in the woods around their house. A young artist devotes himself to a wealthy, malicious gossip, knowing that it's just a matter of time before she turns on him. In this new collection of short stories, acclaimed author Paul Theroux explores the tenuous leadership of the elite and the surprising revenge of the overlooked. He shows us humanity possessed, consumed by its own desire and compulsion, always with his carefully honed eye for detail and the subtle idiosyncrasies that bring his characters to life. Searing, dark, and sure to unsettle, Mr. Bones is a stunning new display of Paul Theroux's "fluent, faintly sinister powers of vision and imagination" (John Updike, The New Yorker)"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Minor watt

Mr. Bones

Our raccoon year

Mrs. Everest

Another necklace

Incident in the Oriente

Rip it up

Siamese nights

Nowadays the dead don't die

Autostop summer

Voices of love

The furies

Rangers

Action

Long story short

Neighbor islands

The traveler's wife

The first world

Headache

I'm the meat, you're the knife

Contains:

Theroux, Paul. Minor watt.

ISBN:

9780544324022

0544324021

OCLC:

867078251