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From the bestselling novelist, travel writer, and master of the short story (NPR) comes a brilliant new collection. The stories in The Vanishing Point are both exotic and domestic, their settings ranging from Hawaii to Africa and New England. Each focuses on life's vanishing pointsa moment when seemingly all lines running through one's life converge, and one can see no farther, yet must deal with the implications. With the insight, subtlety, and empathy that has long characterized his work, Theroux has written deeply moving stories about memory, longing, and the passing of time, reclaiming his status, once again, as a master of the form. The most gifted, most prodigal writer of his generation' Jonathan RabanThe most exciting contemporary practitioner of a literary tradition honed to elegantly crafted terseness by Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene. A terrific teller of tales and conjurer of exotic locales' Sunday Times

The Vanishing Point

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    A Hardback by Paul Theroux

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 2/13/2025
      ISBN-13 9780241567753
      978-0241567753
      ISBN-10 0241567750
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      Fiction Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      From the bestselling novelist, travel writer, and master of the short story (NPR) comes a brilliant new collection. The stories in The Vanishing Point are both exotic and domestic, their settings ranging from Hawaii to Africa and New England. Each focuses on life's vanishing pointsa moment when seemingly all lines running through one's life converge, and one can see no farther, yet must deal with the implications. With the insight, subtlety, and empathy that has long characterized his work, Theroux has written deeply moving stories about memory, longing, and the passing of time, reclaiming his status, once again, as a master of the form. The most gifted, most prodigal writer of his generation' Jonathan RabanThe most exciting contemporary practitioner of a literary tradition honed to elegantly crafted terseness by Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene. A terrific teller of tales and conjurer of exotic locales' Sunday Times

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