Deep South
  • Published: 18 April 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241969359
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $24.99
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Deep South

Four Seasons on Back Roads

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18 Apr 2016
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3 Sep 2015
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Paul Theroux takes us on a riveting journey into the heart of the South, America's other country

For the past fifty years, Paul Theroux has travelled to the far corners of the earth - to China, India, Africa, the Pacific Islands, South America, Russia and elsewhere - and brought them to life in his cool, exacting prose.

In Deep South he turns his gaze to a region much closer to his home. Travelling through North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas, he writes of the stunning landscapes he discovers - the deserts, the mountains, the Mississippi - and above all, the lives of the people he meets.
  • Published: 18 April 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241969359
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $24.99
Categories:

About the author

Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux was born in Medford, Massachusetts, in 1941, and published his first novel, Waldo, in 1967. He wrote his next three novels, Fong and the Indians, Girls at Play and Jungle Lovers, after a five-year stay in Africa. He subsequently taught at the University of Singapore, and during his three years there produced a collection of short stories, Sinning with Annie, and highly praised novel Saint Jack. His other publications include The Black House (1974), a novel; The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia (1975), an account of his journey by train from London to Tokyo and back; The Family Arsenal (1976); The Consul's File (1977); Picture Palace (1978; winnner of the Whitread Literary Award); A Christmans Card (1978; The Old Patagonian Express (1979); World's End and Other Stories (1980); London Snow (1980); The Mosquito Coats, which was the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year for 1981 and the joint winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; The London Embassy (1982); The Kingdom by the Sea (1983); Doctor Slaughter (1985); Sunrise with Seamonsters (1985); The Imperial Way (1985); O-Zone (1986); Riding the Iron Rooster (1988); My Secret History (1989) and Chicago Loop (1990).

Paul Theroux is married with two children and divides his time between London and Cape Cod.

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Praise for Deep South

His ability to sum up a people or a city in a few lines is undiminished

Daily Telegraph

Theroux's work remains the standard by which other travel writing must be judged

Observer

The world's most perceptive travel writer

Daily Mail

[Theroux] has the power to transport us and get under the skin of a place... the stories in Deep South make for a compelling listen

Duncan Minshull, BBC Radio 4

This engrossing book reminds us that despite the poverty, maybe because of it, everyone has a story to tell and it's the writer's job to bear such testimony

Financial Times

Publisher's description. For the first time, renowned travel writer Paul Theroux turns his penetrating gaze homeward, exploring the extraordinary places and peoples of the American Deep South. From soul food and wide open roads to endemic poverty and simmering racial tension, he journeys to the heart of a vivid and mesmerising world.

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