
Mr. Bones
Twenty Stories
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Format: Ebook
Description: 1 online resource
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.
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
Subjects:
Short stories, American.
FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
Short Stories (single author)
Short stories, American.
FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
Short Stories (single author)
ISBN:
9780544324039
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