Alexander Theroux

• Apr-1981
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The conflicts between love and hate, good and evil, and life and art are explored in a portrait of Alaric Darconville, a twenty-nine-year-old professor at Quinsy College--a woman's college in Virginia--who falls in love with and is jilted by one of h...

• Oct-1987
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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...

• Apr-1996
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A fascinating cultural history, these splendid essays on the three primary colors--blue, yellow, and red--extend to the artistic, literary, linguistic, botanical, cinematic, aesthetic, religious, scientific, culinary, climatological, and emotional di...

• Jan-1997
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• Feb-2006
• / General Fiction
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The creator of Li'l Abner goes under the microscope in this handsome monograph. The National Book Award-nominated author of Darconville's Cat and Three Wogs delivers this slender-yet-rich monograph on the controversial life of cartoonist Al Capp, cre...

• Jun-2007
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A brilliant satire from one of the great novelists of his time.

• Jan-2014
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Theroux's acclaimed 2007 novel, now in paperback.

In 2007, National Book Award Nominee Alexander Theroux (Three Wogs, Darconville’s Cat, and An Adultery), returned to the world of letters with his first novel in 20 years: Laura Warholic or...

• Aug-2021
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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 Wogs (1972), Darconville's Cat (1981), An Adultery (1987), and Laura Warho...

• Dec-2021
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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 characteristically unconventional work. It wi...

• May-2022
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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 and a genius in his own right, Alexander Theroux has been highly praised b...

• Jan-2023
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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 truths, witty aphorisms, personal opinions, wise maxims, sardonic ...