num_pages: 468
description: "Theroux's best novel in years."CHICAGO TRIBUNEMY SECRET HISTORY is Paul Theroux's tour de force. It is the story of Andre Parent, a writer, a world traveler, a lover of every kind of woman he chances to meet in a life as varied as a man can lead. From his days as an altar boy, to his job as a teenaged lifeguard, and then as a youth caught between the attentions of a beautiful young student and an amorous older woman. And as the boy becomes a man he turns his attention to writing, which brings him fame, and a wife, who may finally bring him to know himself. But not before he sets up his most dangerous secret life, one that any man might envy, but that could cost Andre Parent the delicate balance that makes him who he is....
language: English
title: My Secret History
titlecomplete: My Secret History
genres: Fiction, American, Collections, Literature, Novels, Travel, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Africa
ratings_count: 1585
places: Massachusetts
publisher: Hamish Hamilton