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Parent saunters into the book, aged fifteen, shouldering a .22 Mossberg rifle as earlier, more innocent American heroes used to tote a fishing pole. In his pocket is a paperback translation of Dante's Inferns. He is a creature of naked and unquenchable ego, greedy for sex, money, experience, aber fe. This is a book whose sentences lead their own secret lives, where meaning is doubled and redoubled as in a hall of mirrors. Read it warily; read it twice, and more it is darker and deeper than it looks -Jonathan Rabin in the Observer
Theroux's prose-sharp, exact, very evocative - knows just how far to allow emotion to seep into a texture which is tearproof. It may well have to be defined as a new genre. Whatever it is, My Secret History is both disturbing and entertaining -Anthony Burgess in the Independant
Therous's divided man may not win any popularity contests, but he is the author's best creation, a character who is honest enough to know that he wants it both ways to be the lover and also the solitary observer who betrays his loves by turning them into stories-Time
Rich, fascinating and humorous, My Secret History shows this protean author on his best form sincs The Mosquith Coast - Time Out
Theroux's prose-sharp, exact, very evocative - knows just how far to allow emotion to seep into a texture which is tearproof. It may well have to be defined as a new genre. Whatever it is, My Secret History is both disturbing and entertaining -Anthony Burgess in the Independant
Therous's divided man may not win any popularity contests, but he is the author's best creation, a character who is honest enough to know that he wants it both ways to be the lover and also the solitary observer who betrays his loves by turning them into stories-Time
Rich, fascinating and humorous, My Secret History shows this protean author on his best form sincs The Mosquith Coast - Time Out