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Lädt ... Saint Jack (German trans)von Paul Theroux
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Men have no double standard to hold them back from doing things like going to a foreign country and staying on there, thinking at first they'll just stay awhile, long enough to make their fortune, and then go home, settle down and live the good life. But what if they never make their fortune at anything, and just kind of limp along, their inertia growing. Until they realize they're old. An American pimp and ship Chandler in Singapore tries different ways of making his fortune. ( ) Fiction, and life in Singapore, as was. Paul Theroux is, as always, a writer who, IMO, draws in the atmosphere of the places he's writing about. There are times when reading this, I'm transported back to Geylang Road, although it's not now althing like the Singapore of old. I read about this book somewhere, and, after initially borrowing it from the library decided that I had to buy it. Thank you, eBay. I hadn't read any of Paul Theroux's books in many years, but I'm glad I grabbed this one off the library shelf. Bostonian Jack Fiori jumps ship in Singapore and invents a new life for himself as Jack Flowers, procurer extraordinary. The novel explores his coming to terms wit the false personas that he and his bar mates cultivate.
Paul Theroux's touch is firmer, funnier and truer with each novel that he writes. Once again the broader frame of reference is transcultural and the inflections are perfectly pitched -- so is the scene (Singapore this time) set, or rather overheard, in the ""papery rustle"" of palm fronds or rattan or whirring dung beetles. Here an American Jack Flowers has spent fifteen years odd-jobbing for a ship chandler Big Hing while also doing some ""conscientious shepherding"" of tourists from offices and clubs to the city's bars and brothels. During this time a man called Leigh who comes to audit Big Hing's books and views Jack's poncing with pinch-nosed disapproval suddenly dies -- reminding Jack of himself -- summoning up his whole past as well as the shaky rationale of his present. From a figure of genial, glad-handing bonhomie (""a finger in every tart"") he becomes a caricature of crumpled middle age. But, gratefully, not for long. Innocence and confidence return -- even a certain probity. After all, are not his catered services more justifiable than the ""anonymous savagery of the new pornography"" threatening to make him obsolescent? Bearbeitet/umgesetzt in
At first Jack was the youngest drinker at the Bandung Club, but now at 53 he is almost a fixture at the bar. Expatriates like him begin to fear dying, and Jack still wants to convert "his perfect dream of magic" into reality. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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