num_pages: 304
description: From the best-selling author of Dark Star Safari and Hotel Honolulu, Paul Theroux's latest offers provocative tales of memory and desire. The sensual story of an unusual love affair leads the collection. The thrill and risk of pursuit and conquest mark the accompanying stories, which tell of the sexual awakening and rites of passage of a Boston boyhood, the ruin of a writer in Africa, and the bewitchment of a retiree in Hawaii. Filled with Theroux's typically exquisite yet devastating descriptions of people and places, The Stranger at the Palazzo D'Oro evokes "the complexities of matters of the heart with subtlety and grace" (People).
language: English
title: The Stranger At The Palazzo D'oro
titlecomplete: The Stranger At The Palazzo D'oro
genres: Travel, Italy, The United States Of America, Short Stories, Fiction
ratings_count: 482
publisher: Mariner Books