The Collected Stories

by Theroux, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780670861279
• ISBN10: 0670861278
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-07-01
• Publisher: Viking Pr

Summary

Funny and sardonic, sensuous and evocative, streaked with cruelty or with terror, these 60 short stories by the bestselling of "My Other Life" take readers from London to Southeast Asia, Boston to Paris, Moscow to the tropics, portraying a variety of characters trapped in loveless relationships, alien situations, or overwhelmed by cultural tremors.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Part I World's End
World's End	3	(12)
Zombies	15	(12)
The Imperial Icehouse	27	(6)
Yard Sale	33	(9)
Algebra	42	(12)
The English Adventure	54	(7)
After the War	61	(10)
Words are Deeds	71	(6)
White Lies	77	(13)
Clapham Junction	90	(7)
The Odd-Job Man	97	(12)
Portrait of a Lady	109	(14)
Part II Sinning with Annie
The Prison Diary of Jack Faust	123	(14)
A Real Russian Ikon	137	(12)
A Political Romance	149	(5)
Sinning with Annie	154	(10)
A Love Knot	164	(13)
What Have You Done to Our Leo?	177	(18)
Memories of a Curfew	195	(10)
Biographical Notes for Four American Poets	205	(13)
Hayseed	218	(7)
A Deed without a Name	225	(10)
You Make Me Mad	235	(6)
Dog Days	241	(12)
A Burial at Surabaya	253	(14)
Part III Jungle Bells
Polvo	267	(3)
Low Tide	270	(8)
Jungle Bells	278	(7)
Warm Dogs	285	(12)
Part IV Diplomatic Relations (i): The Consul's File
The Consul's File	297	(4)
Dependent Wife	301	(10)
White Christmas	311	(7)
Pretend I'm Not Here	318	(8)
Loser Wins	326	(5)
The Flower of Malaya	331	(8)
The Autumn Dog	339	(11)
Dengue Fever	350	(10)
The South Malaysia Pineapple Growers' Association	360	(4)
The Butterfly of the Laruts	364	(6)
The Tennis Court	370	(7)
Reggie Woo	377	(4)
Conspirators	381	(7)
The Johore Murders	388	(7)
The Tiger's Suit	395	(9)
Coconut Gatherer	404	(8)
The Last Colonial	412	(10)
Triad	422	(11)
Diplomatic Relations	433	(10)
Dear William	443	(10)
Part V Diplomatic Relations (ii): The London Embassy
Volunteer Speaker	453	(12)
Reception	465	(16)
Namesake	481	(7)
An English Unofficial Rose	488	(13)
Children	501	(15)
Charlie Hogle's Earring	516	(13)
The Exile	529	(15)
Tomb with a View	544	(13)
The Man on the Clapham Omnibus	557	(11)
Sex and Its Substitutes	568	(15)
The Honorary Siberian	583	(8)
Gone West	591	(10)
A Little Flame	601	(9)
Fury	610	(11)
Neighbors	621	(6)
Fighting Talk	627	(10)
The Winfield Wallpaper	637	(12)
Dancing on the Radio	649	(10)
Memo	659