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Alexander Theroux
As the title Cape Cod Tales indicates, Alexander Theroux's new work of fiction takes place in that early American destination-the windswept, sea-facing, hook-shaped peninsula of Massachusetts, the land of the…
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In Truisms II, Alexander Theroux revisits a favorite subject of his-a second volume of original insights he calls "truisms"-each one a repository of what he believes to be the inevitable…
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Godfather Drosselmeier's Tears and Other Poems, this new collection by Alexander Theroux, gathers a number of poems that were written in the years subsequent to the publication of his celebrated…
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Since the publication of his first novel in 1972, Alexander Theroux has won great acclaim for his dazzling style and forceful intellect. That first novel, Three Wogs, was named Book…
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Written by the author of the acclaimed The Strange Case of Edward Gorey , this book features photos and Capp cartoons from throughout his career. The author’s biography examines his…
The Lollipop Trollops gathers the poems-written over several decades-of Alexander Theroux, one of the most brilliant novelists of our age. It is an uncompromising and explosive volume, a work of…
Nominated twice for the National Book Award, proposed as well for the 1973 Pulitzer Prize by the late Guy Davenport (juror with Edmund Fuller, Herman Kogan), a master of prose…
Fables, the second volume to be published of Theroux’s short stories, truly among his richest and thought-provoking, is a compilation of among his most imaginative, daring, whimsical, highly inspired, and…
Alexander Theroux has taught at Harvard, MIT, Yale, and the University of Virginia, where he took his doctorate in 1968. He is the author of four highly regarded novels, Three…
Seeing Estonia – disrobing her – was my focus.
This is a collection of the National Book Award-nominated author’s poems: sonnets, odes, ballads, and more.
This is a prose nonfiction book about food and food aversions throughout history.
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A unique work in Theroux's canon, Truisms distills a lifetime of observation and reading into thousands of rhyming quatrains, a Rubaiyat for our times. It is a compendium of universal…
Thomas Hardy
Presents Hardy’s classic novel of two people caught up in their passion for each other and conflicting ambitions.
Alexander Theroux's first book of essays, filled with lore and rich anecdote, opens up an entirely new world of art for us. One of America's most illustrious writers, twice nominated…
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This 900-page survey of world literature, From Confucius’ Day to Our Own (as the subtitle reads), was the last book written by Ford Madox Ford, one of the seminal figures…
Alexander Theroux,Robert R. Crumb
Novelist and critic Alexander Theroux analyzes the pop song.
