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Family Arsenal

Paul Theroux
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      The Family Arsenal is a darkly comic novel of warped morals and disillusionment in South London by the award-winning writer Paul Theroux. In South London terrorists plot. . . Hood, a renegade American diplomat, envisions a new urban order in the opium for of his room. He flirts with terrorists, hoping to win their trust and respect. Mayo, his sometime bedmate, has just made a political statement - stealing a Flemish painting and negotiating publicity over this act with The Times. Murf the bomb-maker leaves his mark in red, scrawling 'Arsenal Rule' across half the city's walls, whilst his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Brodie, bombs Euston and afterwards worries about her complexion.A novel of London lowlife and the dispossessed, and a powerful and violent thriller of disenchanted people.'A pleasure. . . with Theroux the thrills are never cheap and obvious' Guardian'One of the most evocative, intelligently crafted suspense novels in years - like the early fiction of Graham Greene. . . London has rarely looked dingier or more sinister...an assured success' The New York Times'Brilliant and haunting. . . the ingenious of the plot, the London setting. . . the trapped and interwoven people, and the balefully witty observation, have an undistracted force' ObserverAmerican travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his novels and collected short stories, My Other Life, The Collected Stories, My Secret History, The Lower River, The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro, A Dead Hand, Millroy the Magician, The Elephanta Suite, Saint Jack, The Consul's File, The Mosquito Coast, and his works of non-fiction, including the iconic The Great Railway Bazaar are available from Penguin.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Paul Theroux EAN: 9780141049861 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 145 g HEIGHT: 1 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2010-10-07 CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Small Town & Rural WIDTH: 1 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      London, Greater London, c 1980 to c 1989, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Terrorism, armed struggle

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      Paul Theroux has written many works of fiction and travel writing, including the modern classics The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, My Secret History and The Mosquito Coast. He won the Edward Stanford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing 2020. Paul Theroux divides his time between Cape Cod and the Hawaiian islands.
      The Family Arsenal is a darkly comic novel of warped morals and disillusionment in South London by the award-winning writer Paul Theroux. In South London terrorists plot. . . Hood, a renegade American diplomat, envisions a new urban order in the opium for of his room. He flirts with terrorists, hoping to win their trust and respect. Mayo, his sometime bedmate, has just made a political statement - stealing a Flemish painting and negotiating publicity over this act with The Times. Murf the bomb-maker leaves his mark in red, scrawling 'Arsenal Rule' across half the city's walls, whilst his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Brodie, bombs Euston and afterwards worries about her complexion.A novel of London lowlife and the dispossessed, and a powerful and violent thriller of disenchanted people.'A pleasure. . . with Theroux the thrills are never cheap and obvious' Guardian'One of the most evocative, intelligently crafted suspense novels in years - like the early fiction of Graham Greene. . . London has rarely looked dingier or more sinister...an assured success' The New York Times'Brilliant and haunting. . . the ingenious of the plot, the London setting. . . the trapped and interwoven people, and the balefully witty observation, have an undistracted force' ObserverAmerican travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his novels and collected short stories, My Other Life, The Collected Stories, My Secret History, The Lower River, The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro, A Dead Hand, Millroy the Magician, The Elephanta Suite, Saint Jack, The Consul's File, The Mosquito Coast, and his works of non-fiction, including the iconic The Great Railway Bazaar are available from Penguin.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Paul Theroux EAN: 9780141049861 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 145 g HEIGHT: 1 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2010-10-07 CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Small Town & Rural WIDTH: 1 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      London, Greater London, c 1980 to c 1989, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Terrorism, armed struggle

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      Paul Theroux has written many works of fiction and travel writing, including the modern classics The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, My Secret History and The Mosquito Coast. He won the Edward Stanford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing 2020. Paul Theroux divides his time between Cape Cod and the Hawaiian islands.

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