Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind of interested, but it's a nice day, so I'm out here with a bunch of people," said Canadian-born Paul D. Todgham...
...Paul Quinn-Judge. With reporting by Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow
...Paul Theroux's 20th novel, My Other Life (Houghton Mifflin; 456 pages; $24.95), begins on a decidedly unpropitious note, an Author's Note, in fact, in which Theroux describes his novel as "an imaginary memoir" and goes on to say that "even an imagined life resembles one that was lived; yet in this I was entirely driven by my alter ego's murmur of 'what if?'" Groaning seems a proper response at this point. Oh boy, another self-regarding writer playing solipsistic games for his own amusement. Anything good on the tube...
...character named Paul Theroux moves chronologically, chapter by chapter, through a life that is identical in all external details to the biographical sketches familiar to author Paul Theroux's readers. First comes his stint as a Peace Corps volunteer in Africa in the mid-1960s, followed by a period in Singapore, where he teaches English and begins attracting attention as a promising young novelist. Then comes the long sojourn in London, where, as an American expatriate and the happily married father of two sons, he writes novels (The Family Arsenal, The Mosquito Coast) that firm up his reputation and livelihood...
...bring what one of our colleagues, Paul Lawrence, long ago called 'chunks of reality' into the classroom chew on them, pull at them and understand what's going on. We can do that to a level of depth, reality and nuance that simply was not possible with the paper cases," Clark says...