Ebook {Epub PDF} Saint Jack by Paul Theroux

In Paul Theroux (), Jungle Lovers (), and Saint Jack (; film )—centre on the social and cultural dislocation of Westerners in postcolonial Africa and Southeast Asia. His later works of fiction included The Family Arsenal (), about a group of terrorists in the London slums; The Mosquito Coast (; film ), about. Saint Jack. by. Paul Theroux. · Rating details · ratings · 65 reviews. At one time, expatriate Jack Flowers was the youngest drinker at Singapore's Bandung Club. Now, at 53, he is a fixture. But he is beginning to fear death, alone and vulnerable in the alien tropics. And Jack still dreams of success/5. "Paul Theroux is without peer as the merciless obituarist of colonialism. He knows his way matchlessly about the milieu where no-one was ever at home, while having forgotten any other home. Dunroamin, a whore-house that is the pride of Jack Flowers, the 'Saint Jack' of his latest novel, is its perfect expression. Theroux novels are neither apologia nor accusation; wit is his rare medium, and that lays /5(47).

Saint Jack () was groundbreaking in that it was the first Hollywood movie to be filmed entirely on location in Singapore, the first to contain a gay Singaporean sub-plot complete with full frontal male nudity and the first to have a Singaporean trans woman nude scene.. The film was adapted by Peter Bogdanovich, Howard O. Sackler and Paul Theroux from the novel by Theroux himself. Paul Theroux's touch is firmer, funnier and truer with each novel that he writes. Once again the broader frame of reference is transcultural and the inflections are perfectly pitched -- so is the scene (Singapore this time) set, or rather overheard, in the ""papery rustle"" of palm fronds or rattan or whirring dung beetles. "Paul Theroux is without peer as the merciless obituarist of colonialism. He knows his way matchlessly about the milieu where no-one was ever at home, while having forgotten any other home. Dunroamin, a whore-house that is the pride of Jack Flowers, the 'Saint Jack' of his latest novel, is its perfect expression.

Saint Jack (The Uniform Edition of Paul Theroux) Theroux, Paul. Published by Hamish Hamilton, London, ISBN ISBN Seller: Great Northern Books, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A. Contact seller. Seller Rating: First Edition. Used - Hardcover. In Paul Theroux (), Jungle Lovers (), and Saint Jack (; film )—centre on the social and cultural dislocation of Westerners in postcolonial Africa and Southeast Asia. His later works of fiction included The Family Arsenal (), about a group of terrorists in the London slums; The Mosquito Coast (; film ), about. "Paul Theroux is without peer as the merciless obituarist of colonialism. He knows his way matchlessly about the milieu where no-one was ever at home, while having forgotten any other home. Dunroamin, a whore-house that is the pride of Jack Flowers, the 'Saint Jack' of his latest novel, is its perfect expression. Theroux novels are neither apologia nor accusation; wit is his rare medium, and that lays both bare.".