Author: PAUL THEROUX Title: Saint Jack
Description: Hamish Hamilton, 1977. Gekartonneerd. Pp: 251. Award-winning writer Paul Theroux explores the darker underside of the community of expatriates in South-East Asia in his compelling and strikingly honest novel Saint Jack.nJack Flowers, saint or sinner, caught a passing bumboat into Singapore and got a job as a water-clerk to a Chinese ship chandler. Now, on the side, he offers girls (indeed 'anything, anything at all') to tourists, sailors, residents and expatriates, but he is haunted by his lack of worldly success and his fifty-three years weight heavily on him. So when he agrees to act as blackmailer for the faintly sinister American Edwin Shuck in a plot against a general from Vietnam, he has high, not to mention wild, hopes of triumph.nThese are the outrageous confessions of an ingenious conman in the seedy and unforgettable world of expatriates amidst imperial ruins. ISBN: 0241897696. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 0241897696
Price: EUR 7.00 = appr. US$ 7.61 Seller: De Slegte
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