Paul Theroux DR DEMARR First Edition
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Paul Theroux DR DEMARR First Edition
First UK edition, first print hardback of DR. DEMARR, by Paul Theroux and published by Hutchinson - Century Hutchinson Ltd., London in 1990. With illustrations by Marshall Arisman.
The book is in very good condition (Clean quarter bound black and red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and facsimile gilt signature on front) with only slight wear to the dust jacket, which is price clipped (minor creasing to the edges and very slight rubbing to a couple of corners). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions.
Born in Medford, Massachusetts, Paul Theroux's writing reflects his relatively footloose life. Though known primarily as a travel writer, Theroux's literary output also includes novels, books for children, short stories, and poetry. His novels include Picture Palace (1978), which won the Whitbread Award; The Mosquito Coast (1981), which won the James Tait Black Award; Saint Jack (1973), filmed in 1979; and Doctor Slaughter (1984), filmed as Half Moon Street in 1987. Although Theroux has also written general travel books and books about various modes of transport, his name is synonymous with the literature of train travel. He has remarked that "ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it. Those whistles sing bewitchment; railways are irresistible bazaars."
Theroux's 1975 best-seller, The Great Railway Bazaar, takes the reader through Asia. His second book about train travel, The Old Patagonian Express (1979), describes his trip from Boston to the tip of South America. His third contribution to the railway travel genre, Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China (1989), won the Thomas Cook Prize for best literary travel book in 1989. Theroux's leisure interest in rowing perhaps accounts in part for his latest book, The Happy Isles of Oceania (1992). He traveled to 51 islands and 1 continent by cargo ship, train, and collapsible kayak. He explored obscure coastal nooks, juts, and islets and included, according to an article in the National Geographic Traveler, ". . . summary lessons on the concept of South Sea paradises, cargo cults, cannibalism, privately owned islands, missionaries, Thor Heyerdahl, diet, and colonialism..
"George and Gerald identical twins, hated each other from an early age; but they had no one else. They knew that most people live with the satisifaction that they are single and unqiue - but it was the fate of twins always to be weighed and compared.
For the whole of their early life they were unhappily chained together, and it was torture. Then came adulthood, and freedom. Gerald had not seen George for years. Then one day George appeared on his doorstep, and asked to stay. Gerald could hardly refuse, but found a pressing reason why he had to go away on a week's holiday. On his return he found George still there all right - sitting in his favourite armchair, stone dead.
Searching through his brother's clothing, Gerald comes across evidence that for years George has been living a double life in quite another sense - assuming the identity of one Doctor DeMarr, physician to the rich. What would happen if he, Gerald, took over his role? He soon discovers - and finds himself caught up in a world of bogus medicine, discarded mistresses and lethal drugs. The result is an eerie, disconcerting and thought-provoking novella such as only Paul Theroux could produce."
94 pages. Illustrated with numerous full page black & white drawings.
ISBN: 0 09 173612 9
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