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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Gardners Books
Publication date
July 6, 2006
Pages
448
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780141015736
ISBN-10
014101573X
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$14.40
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
A journey downriver in a remote eastern province of Ecuador gives the author the experience he has been seeking and a miracle drug, which induces temporary blindness. On his return to the USA, he is rejuvenated able not only to write and remember, but granted an almost uncanny prescience, bordering on second sight.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: From the jungles of Ecuador to the island of Martha’s Vineyard, Paul Theroux’s new novel titillates with eroticism, intelligence, and wit.
Slade Steadman is the ultimate one-book wonder. His lone opus, published twenty years ago, was a cult classic about his travels through dozens of countries without benefit of passport. With his soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend in tow, he sets out for Ecuador’s easternmost jungle in search of a rare hallucinogenic drug and what he hopes will be the cure for his writer’s block.
But his world is altered profoundly when he becomes addicted to the drug and the insights it provides, only to have them desert him, along with his sight. Will he regain his vision? His visions? Or will he forgo the world of his imagining and his ambition? As Theroux leads us toward the answers, he makes fresh magic out of the venerable, intertwined themes of sight and insight. He also offers incisive, sometimes hilarious takes on the manifold ironies of travel and the trappings of the writer’s life — from the fear of the blank page to the unexpected challenges of the book tour.
Slade Steadman is the ultimate one-book wonder. His lone opus, published twenty years ago, was a cult classic about his travels through dozens of countries without benefit of passport. With his soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend in tow, he sets out for Ecuador’s easternmost jungle in search of a rare hallucinogenic drug and what he hopes will be the cure for his writer’s block.
But his world is altered profoundly when he becomes addicted to the drug and the insights it provides, only to have them desert him, along with his sight. Will he regain his vision? His visions? Or will he forgo the world of his imagining and his ambition? As Theroux leads us toward the answers, he makes fresh magic out of the venerable, intertwined themes of sight and insight. He also offers incisive, sometimes hilarious takes on the manifold ironies of travel and the trappings of the writer’s life — from the fear of the blank page to the unexpected challenges of the book tour.
Editions
Hardcover
from Houghton Mifflin (June 1, 2005)
9780618418862 | details & prices | 438 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.50 in. | 1.70 lbs | List price $26.00
About: Explores creative genius and fame through the life of a writer whose search for a muse has led him into dangerous and destructive places.
About: Explores creative genius and fame through the life of a writer whose search for a muse has led him into dangerous and destructive places.
Paperback
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With Paul Theroux |
from Gardners Books (July 6, 2006)
9780141015736 | details & prices | 448 pages | List price $14.40
About: A journey downriver in a remote eastern province of Ecuador gives the author the experience he has been seeking and a miracle drug, which induces temporary blindness.
About: A journey downriver in a remote eastern province of Ecuador gives the author the experience he has been seeking and a miracle drug, which induces temporary blindness.
Reprint edition from Mariner Books (June 1, 2006)
9780618711963 | details & prices | 438 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 1.25 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $14.95
About: Explores creative genius and fame through the life of a writer whose search for a muse has led him into dangerous and destructive places.
About: Explores creative genius and fame through the life of a writer whose search for a muse has led him into dangerous and destructive places.
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