My Secret History
by Paul Theroux
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Author: Paul TherouxEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1996-09-29
ISBN: 0449912000
Number of pages: 512
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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- ISBN13: 9780449912003
- Condition: New
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Book Review: A Multi-Faceted Masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
The prequal to his acclaimed *My Other Life*, *My Secret History* is also a masterful work of narrative and characterization, imbued with grace, humor, and humanity. It demonstrates a young man's coming-of-age stuggles more astutely than any book I've read, and while it's easier to read than the later book, it's just as poignant: we often rather smugly hide behind our baggage and consider younger people frivolous because of inexperience, or somehow incapable of love. Theroux shows that they *do* feel love, of romance, friendship, respect--and these emotions form the measuring sticks by which all our subsequent experiences will be measured. Moreover, the book itself is an act of love--of writing and of living. It has made me value my own life more fully, through pages that made me relate, reflect, laugh, and read until dawn, and then, the better for it, get up and start writing, myself. And living.
Just read the tender, blunt and beautiful first section, and I seriously doubt you'll stop.
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