- Hardcover: 448 pages
- Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd; 1st Edition edition (7 July 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0241142555
- ISBN-13: 978-0241142554
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 4.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,663,036 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A journey into the forbidden - the erotic, the remote, the uncharted. Slade Steadman has written one of the most famous travel books ever. But he has been unable to write anything else for thirty years. A journey downriver in a remote eastern province of Ecuador among the Secoya indians gives Steadman the experience he has been seeking - and a miracle drug. He returns tothe USA with the drug that induces temporary blindness. He is energized - able not only to write and remember, but granted an almost uncanny prescience, bordering on second sight. He is able to work again, and enjoys a period of intense creativity back home on Martha's Vineyard, where he has lived as a recluse. He finishes the book he had always dreamed of writing and becomes famous once more. But the drug he has been taking has possessed him, and it seems there is no way to reverse its blinding effects. He becomes a captive - of the woman he has been his lover, of the man who helped him in Ecuador, of the scandal surrounding his blindness.
About the Author
Paul Theroux is the author of many bestselling books, both fiction and non-fiction, including most recently Dark Star Safari and The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro.
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WISHING TO GO where you don't belong is the condition of most people in the world" was the opening sentence of Trespassing. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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WISHING TO GO where you don't belong is the condition of most people in the world" was the opening sentence of Trespassing. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
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