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The Lower River

novel by Theroux

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In Paul Theroux: Later works
The Lower River (2012) chronicles an elderly man’s return to the Malawian village where he had served as a Peace Corps volunteer in his youth. Some of Theroux’s short fiction was collected in Mr. Bones (2014). The satirical Mother Land (2017) centers on a dysfunctional…
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