{"product_id":"the-stranger-at-the-palazzo-doro-isbn-9780618485338","title":"The Stranger At The Palazzo D'oro","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom 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).\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eSupremely moving. A master class in detail and sensuous evocation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Financial Times of London\u003cbr\u003eYet another stimulating volume in [Theroux's] impressive canon.\u003cp\u003eThe San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErotic intrigue is at the heart of these stories, each of which renders familiar territory wonderfully strange.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVogue\u003cbr\u003eFor armchair adventuring, STRANGER AT THE PALAZZO D'ORO is golden.\u003cp\u003eBoston Herald\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ean accomplished book by an accomplished writer (B+) Denver Rocky Mountain News\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTherou'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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheroux has rarely been in better form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003efuther proof that Theroux, the evocative prose stylist, remains ever worth reading.\u003cp\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompelling reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharlotte Observer\u003cbr\u003eTheroux has the ability to capture people and places that are achingly beautiful Pittsburg Post Gazette\u003cbr\u003eTheroux uses his precise, realistic style like a scalpel...a marvelous yarn.\u003cp\u003eProvidence Journal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea satisfying mix of tales...[Theroux's] stories are engrossing and evoke an air of sensuality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Oregonian\u003cbr\u003eOddly beguiling...dramatically rich.\u003cp\u003eContra Costa Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890208436453,"sku":"NP9780618485338","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780618485338.jpg?v=1730232765","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-stranger-at-the-palazzo-doro-isbn-9780618485338","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}