Mr Bones: Twenty Stories

Product Description

Paul Theroux, the master teller of tales, presents twenty new, delicious and disturbing stories. In Minor Watt, a famous art collector publicly destroys his most valuable works, enjoying the feeling of power it gives him - until he meets his match. In Our Raccoon Year a divorced father wages war on the animals which invade his property after his wife leaves. Richly imaginative, often sharp as a knife, these stories will entertain as much as they unsettle. Enjoy!

Theroux understands, often with devastating effect, how dramas both big and small can produce catastrophic and lasting psychological consequences.' Guardian

'Cracking, delicious tales, scattered with gems . . . from the off this collection had me grinning.' Big Issue

'Dazzling, brilliant. Combines the traveller's hawk-eye with the novelist's keen insight.' New Statesman

'Exquisite, frightening. Astute observations of place and pin-sharp portraits of people. A vastly enjoyable collection by a writer in complete control of his art.' Financial Times

'Theroux's work is like no one else's. A series of characteristically dark and sharply focused snapshots from the world that Theroux has observed - and invented.' New York Times Book Review