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The Primary Colors: Three Essays
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In novels like Darconville's Cat and An Adultery, Alexander Theroux has staked a claim as one of American writing's most brilliant voices. His three interrelated essays--comprehensively examining three primary colors--comprise a rich and billowing tour de force, a virtuoso performance of the liberal education.
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The Secondary Colors: Three Essays
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A new and avidly awaited collection, this follow-up to Theroux's "The Primary Colors" explores the secondary colors--orange, purple, and green--by way of literature, music, art, poetry, linguistics, sports, religion, food, science, botany, movies, fable, anecdote, and no end of satire and strong opinion.
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Darconville's Cat
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Alaric Darconville is a young professor at a small Southern college. He falls in love with one of his students, is deserted, and the consequences are almost beyond the telling. But not quite. This novel is an astonishing wire-walking exhibition of wit. knowledge, and linguistic mastery. Its chapters embody a multiplicity of narrative forms, ...
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Laura Warholic: Or the Sexual Intellectual
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A brilliant satire from one of the great novelists of his time. In his first novel in nearly twenty years, Alexander Theroux, National Book Award Nominee, returns with a compendious satire, a bold and inquisitorial circuit-breaking examination of love and hate, of rejection and forgiveness, of trust and romantic disappointment, of the terrors of ...
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Master Snickup's cloak
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Alexander Theroux, Brian Froud (Illustrator)
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The Lollipop Trollops and Other Poems
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The collected poems of novelist Alexander Theroux, written over the course of several decades.
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An Adultery
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The third novel from acclaimed, award-winning Alexander Theroux is a darkly realistic tale of adultery set in contemporary New England. Christian Ford is a man who is betrayed in an adulterous affair, only to discover that he himself betrayed a woman he loved and abandoned. Throughout the story, Christian attempts to understand the dangerously ...
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Strange Case of Edward Gorey
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Like an obscure gentleman sleuth in the British mystery novels that he loved, the celebrated American artist Edward Gorey was a curious, reclusive individual with an inordinate interest in the drama of other people's lives, and a penchant for the grim reality of true crime. Surrounded by cats, books, skulls, iron jewelry, and the assorted ...
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Three wogs
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Alexander Theroux
Three Wogs is composed as a triptych, displaying three extravagantly archetypal Londoners, each of whom undergoes a fateful encounter with his own particular 'wog'.
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The Enigma of Al Capp
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Theroux delves into the well-known, yet glossed over, dark side of Li'l Abner Creator, Al Capp. Compassionately, but with a keen eye, Theroux traces Capp's degeneration from a brilliantly funny creator of American myth into a bitter, disillusioned, radical conservative ego-maniac. By juxtaposing his art with his Life, Theroux often a rich and ...
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The March of Literature: From Confucius' Day to Our Own
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Ford Madox Ford, Alexander Theroux (Introduction by)
A survey of world literature, beginning with ancient Egyptian and Chinese literature, as well as the Bible, through classical, Middle Ages, Renaissance, and modern works. In putting together this work, Ford was trying to convey to readers his great love of books; he felt that academicians of the time were trying to cram down their pupils' throats ...
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The Great Wheadle Tragedy
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Alexander Theroux, Stan Washburn (Illustrator)
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The Schinocephalic Waif
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The primary colours : three essays.
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