num_pages: 435
description: This collection of Theroux's short novels span his fictional from a pair of post-adolescent malcontents hiding from their future to a vulnerable ageing stripper and single mother who finds God. Theroux's characters struggle with indeterminate, and often cruel, destinies.
language: English
title: The Collected Short Novels
titlecomplete: The Collected Short Novels
genres: Fiction
ratings_count: 18
publisher: Penguin Books