Mr. Bones: Twenty Stories, by Paul Theroux
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“Suave and accomplished . . . [The stories] are unsettling, resistant to tidy denouement and faintly misanthropic.” — Washington Post “Beneath the deceptive elegance of these stories, land mines lurk, and Theroux detonates them with gusto.” — O, the Oprah Magazine A family watches their patriarch transform into the singing, wisecracking lead of an old-timey minstrel show. An art collector publicly destroys his most valuable pieces. Two boys stand by as their father wages war on the raccoons living under their house. In this new collection, acclaimed author Paul Theroux shows us humanity possessed, consumed by compulsive desire, always with his carefully honed eye for detail and the subtle idiosyncrasies that bring his characters to life. Searing, dark, and sure to unsettle, Mr. Bones is a stunning display of Theroux’s “fluent, faintly sinister powers of vision and imagination” (The New Yorker). “Fans of Theroux’s fiction will be pleased to observe, in the twenty stories collected in Mr. Bones, clear evidence of how little he has mellowed over time . . . Mr. Bones is a series of characteristically dark and sharply focused snapshots from the world that Paul Theroux has observed—and invented.” — Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review
Mr. Bones: Twenty Stories, by Paul Theroux- Amazon Sales Rank: #980744 in Books
- Brand: Theroux, Paul
- Published on: 2015-05-19
- Released on: 2015-05-19
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .92" w x 5.31" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 368 pages
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"Theroux has become a master of the form, with a deep capacity to engage, enchant and unsettle...in the same way he makes exotic locales worth visiting, Theroux inspires you to wonder what you’re overlooking when encountering friends, neighbors and strangers alike. A versatile, prolific author asserts his pre-eminence in short fiction with an unassuming brilliance that almost makes you think stories will become popular again." —Kirkus, starred review
"Rich in the details of exotic places...all are highly entertaining...This excellent new collection allows readers to sample an array of Theroux’s most entertaining fiction in short story form; highly recommended." —Library Journal
"Notes of Theroux’s famed travel writing...The final product is a hefty, remarkably diverse batch of stories colored by Theroux’s prolific taste for exploration." —Publishers Weekly
From the Inside Flap “After more than forty years of publishing short stories, Theroux has become a master of the form, with a deep capacity to engage, enchant and unsettle . . . [He] asserts his preeminence in short fiction with an unassuming brilliance.” — Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewA family watches in horror as their patriarch transforms into the singing, wisecracking lead of an old-timey minstrel show. A renowned art collector relishes destroying his most valuable pieces. Two boys stand by helplessly as their father stages an all-consuming war on the raccoons living in the woods around their house. A young artist devotes himself to a wealthy, malicious gossip, knowing that it’s just a matter of time before she turns on him.In this new collection of award-winning short stories, acclaimed author Paul Theroux explores the tenuous leadership of the elite and the surprising revenge of the overlooked. He shows us humanity possessed, consumed by its own desires and compulsions, always with his carefully honed eye for detail and the subtle idiosyncrasies that bring his characters to life. Searing, dark, and sure to unsettle, Mr. Bones is a stunning new display of Paul Theroux’s “fluent, faintly sinister powers of vision and imagination” (The New Yorker).
From the Back Cover “Suave and accomplished . . . [The stories] are unsettling, resistant to tidy denouement and faintly misanthropic.” — Washington Post “Beneath the deceptive elegance of these stories, land mines lurk, and Theroux detonates them with gusto.” — O, the Oprah Magazine A family watches their patriarch transform into the singing, wisecracking lead of an old-timey minstrel show. An art collector publicly destroys his most valuable pieces. Two boys stand by as their father wages war on the raccoons living under their house. In this new collection, acclaimed author Paul Theroux shows us humanity possessed, consumed by compulsive desire, always with his carefully honed eye for detail and the subtle idiosyncrasies that bring his characters to life. Searing, dark, and sure to unsettle, Mr. Bones is a stunning display of Theroux’s “fluent, faintly sinister powers of vision and imagination” (The New Yorker). “Fans of Theroux’s fiction will be pleased to observe, in the twenty stories collected in Mr. Bones, clear evidence of how little he has mellowed over time . . . Mr. Bones is a series of characteristically dark and sharply focused snapshots from the world that Paul Theroux has observed—and invented.” — Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review PAUL THEROUX is the author of many highly acclaimed books. His novels include The Lower River and The Mosquito Coast, and his renowned travel books include Ghost Train to the Eastern Star and Dark Star Safari. He lives in Hawaii and on Cape Cod.
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15 of 19 people found the following review helpful. Brilliantly Repulsive By Roger Brunyate Nobody can say Paul Theroux isn't good. If he hadn't been, it would be easier to read these stories, or easier to put them down, whichever. But he has the skill to draw you into his world, his dark, twisted, over-the-top world, so that you read on despite yourself. I found the first story in the collection, "Minor Watt," so repulsive that I almost threw the book away then and there. But I made myself a deal: I would read the first six stories, plus the longest, "Siamese Nights" (at 50 pages, almost a novella), and call it a day. Having now finished almost half the book, I can now say I am more in tune with Theroux' dark vision and less easily shocked. But I do not like the infection that has taken hold of me, and have no wish for further contact.Minor Watt is a fabulously rich real estate developer and collector of artistic rarities from all over the world. Near the beginning of the story, in a negotiation with his almost-ex wife, he does something that at first I took to be an accident. But as the story went on, and this one event became multiplied a hundred times, I came to regard him with the same repugnance as if he strangled kittens for pleasure. The story took a trajectory that would become frequent in this collection: something either bizarre or repulsive repeated obsessively, beyond the bounds of normal reason, to the point where one becomes almost desensitized.Although often unrealistic, it is never entirely surreal. Minor Watt's monstrous behavior also makes a point about the art world -- a milieu to which Theroux returns in a later story, "Mrs. Everest." Besides, he gets something of a comeuppance at the end. The protagonist of the title story, "Mr. Bones," is a henpecked husband who becomes a wildly different person when he starts rehearsing for a blackface minstrel show put on by his church choir. The abandoned husband in "Our Raccoon Year" holds it together for a while looking after his two boys, but then gets involved in a battle with varmints that reaches epic and cruel proportions. The morals of the stories are mostly right, but the nightmare excesses Theroux puts his readers through leave a sick taste, not matter how the stories turn out.The long story, "Siamese Nights," shows one of the things that Paul Theroux has always done well: conveying the sense of a foreign country, not by physical description, but through the feel and smell of its cities, its street people, and hidden vices. Boyd Osier is an American accountant. For what will probably be the last assignment of his career, his company sends him to Bangkok, while his wife waits in their chilly retirement home on the coast of Maine. Boyd is reluctant to join his compatriots in evening drinking at girly bars, preferring to make pencil sketches in his journal and call home to his wife. But then something happens that drags him down. And down. For once, this is not excessive, but perfectly believable. But that only makes it worse, for now the reader has no defense against participating in his degradation. Enough!
12 of 15 people found the following review helpful. A Wonderful Reminder about Why I Loved his Books By Bryan Newman I was led to Paul Theroux twenty some years ago when my college fascination with Africa brought me to Fong and the Indians and Jungle Love. Later I was whisked away by an anachronistic image of him in polyester leisure suits and seventies sideburns as he traveled the world by train in his travel writings. But then we lost ways and it wasn't until last year's "The Last Train to Zona Verde" that I reconnected with him. It was like meeting an idolized uncle, suddenly in his seventies with his adventurous days behind him. This book was like an evening with him, spinning yarns based on his travels and experiences. It was wonderful to sit back with him and remember the way he could cast characters and turn a phrase, and with a hint of nostalgia, I feel that he has never been diminished.The stories have a lot of the his signature traits to them. The characters are wonderfully developed but often falling into madness. The settings are varied from Boston to the Amazon. And there is an string of art and culture entwined in almost all of the stories. Also, much like his career, the styles jump. I can't say how astonished I was to read O-Zone, a sudden foray into science fiction. Similarly, the short story forms jump around in this book. I was especially taken by "Long Story Short," which is a collection of vignettes of life stories, each a jewel in itself. I also appreciated throw backs like "Incident in the Oriente" which again reads almost more like a character sketch, but has a manly Hearts of Darkness feel to it. It feels a lot like the earliest things I read from Theroux.Much like my own uncles who seemed like giants of men but are now falling, I have treasured this book as time to remember what I loved about Theroux and his writing. Not to write a premature eulogy for him as a man and a writer, but it has given me the time to appreciate what he has given me. I hope there are suitcases of stories like these yet to come.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Dark, Unsettling Collection of Stories By CL The stories collected here are dark and unsettling in many ways, something that usually draws me in as a reader, but only a handful of them really worked for me. A prolific writer, Paul Theroux knows what he's doing, but some of the stories just didn't hold my interest. That being said, I'll highlight a few that did.In the opening story, a rich art collector stumbles upon the joys of destroying valuable, irreplaceable art; he takes his destruction the to the extreme, inspiring awe and fear in those around him. It's a wickedly dark tale with a perfect ending.'Rip It Up' follows two schoolboys who don't quite fit in and find themselves the targets of bullying and teasing from both their classmates and teachers. When they start building and exploding small bombs and planning their revenge, you get an idea of where the story is heading - only to be surprised by how it concludes.'Siamese Nights' deals with a man on the verge of retiring who's working in Thailand. Theroux has a talent for giving you a real sense of what it's like to be in a foreign country with very different customs. In the story, the narrator has an affair with a local Thai woman he meets at a bar, only to slowly discover she isn't exactly what she seems. He begins imagining staying on in Thailand and living out his days with his new lover, but things take a grim turn after the two have a misunderstanding. The ending really took me by surprise. It's possibly my favorite of the bunch.Overall, I enjoyed many of these stories, but once I finished, I didn't feel the desire to go out and read everything else the author has ever written. I can always tell how much I like a book by how much I want to read other work by the writer.
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