The Stranger At The Palazzo D'oro

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).

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Supremely moving. A master class in detail and sensuous evocation.

The Financial Times of London
Yet another stimulating volume in [Theroux's] impressive canon.

The San Francisco Chronicle

Erotic intrigue is at the heart of these stories, each of which renders familiar territory wonderfully strange.

Vogue
For armchair adventuring, STRANGER AT THE PALAZZO D'ORO is golden.

Boston Herald

an accomplished book by an accomplished writer (B+) Denver Rocky Mountain News

Therou'x prose is shot through with gentle melancholy, evoking the complexities of matters of the heart with subtlety and grace. (3.5 out of 4 stars) People Magazine

Theroux has rarely been in better form.

The Los Angeles Times
futher proof that Theroux, the evocative prose stylist, remains ever worth reading.

The Washington Post

Compelling reading.

Charlotte Observer
Theroux has the ability to capture people and places that are achingly beautiful Pittsburg Post Gazette
Theroux uses his precise, realistic style like a scalpel...a marvelous yarn.

Providence Journal

a satisfying mix of tales...[Theroux's] stories are engrossing and evoke an air of sensuality.

The Oregonian
Oddly beguiling...dramatically rich.

Contra Costa Times