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  • Truisms II
    Alexander Theroux
    In Truisms II, Alexander Theroux revisits a favorite subject of his-a second volume of original insights he calls 'truisms'-each one a repository of what he believes to be the inevitable or irresistible ever-fixed marks he has observed over a lifetime of reading, thinking, and writing.While a truism’s insistent authenticity lends it an air of dogma, this quality can also make i...
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    25,55 €

  • Cape Cod Tales
    Alexander Theroux
    As the title Cape Cod Tales indicates, Alexander Theroux’s new work of fiction takes place in that early American destination-the windswept, sea-facing, hook-shaped peninsula of Massachusetts, the land of the 'First Comers' in 1620. Set in the 19th century, it tells the tales of three fascinating but complicated natives, each of a different age, temperament, and profession: Hor...
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    24,72 €

  • Artists Who Kill & Other Essays on Art
    Alexander Theroux
    Alexander Theroux’s first book of essays, filled with lore and rich anecdote, opens up an entirely new world of art for us. One of America’s most illustrious writers, twice nominated for the National Book Award, the distinguished novelist and poet leaves us in this major compilation on the subject-virtually operatic in scope and, in span, nothing less than fully informative-a g...
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    29,14 €

  • Truisms
    Alexander Theroux
    A unique work in Theroux’s canon, Truisms distills a lifetime of observation and reading into thousands of rhyming quatrains, a Rubaiyat for our times. It is a compendium of universal truths, witty aphorisms, personal opinions, wise maxims, sardonic insults, cranky complaints, abrupt advice, and believe-it-or-not factoids that only he could assemble. Beginning with a well-infor...
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    29,20 €