Paul Theroux’s New Book: BURMA SAHIB
John, Isn't the reviewer William Boyd with a "d"? He wrote one of my favorite novels about West Africa, A…
Before He Was George Orwell, He Was Eric Blair, Police Officer
Paul Theroux’s (Malawi 1963-65) new novel, “Burma Sahib,” explores the writer’s formative experiences in colonial Myanmar.
Reviewer William Boys writes in Sunday’s New York Times, “The late Martin Amis once declared that “novelists tend to go off at 70. … The talent dies before the body.” Theroux is now in his early 80s and this novel is one of his finest, in a long and redoubtable oeuvre. The talent is in remarkable shape.”
John, Isn’t the reviewer William Boyd with a “d”? He wrote one of my favorite novels about West Africa, A Good Man in Africa.
And yes, Martin Amis’s declaration that “novelists tend to go off at 70” is greatly exaggerated!