Paul Theroux

From the acclaimed author of The Mosquito Coast and The Bad Angel Brothers comes a riveting new novel exploring one of English literature's most beloved and controversial figures—George Orwell—and his often-unexplored early years as an officer in colonial Burma that would do so much to shape his most famous novels.

The narrator of Paul Theroux's previous book, "The Consul's File", has been promoted and given a now post. He is now a Political Officer in the American Embassy in London. This is both a novel and a collection of the episodes can stand alone, but together they help us to understand the world of political power and social infighting in London today., London, Hamish Hamilton, 1982., 211pp., good condition, hardback, slightly marked d/j, first edition Former owner's name on inside cover

In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they've left. Fleeing from an America he sees as mired in materialism and conformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer life. But his utopian experiment takes a dark turn when his obsessions lead the family toward unimaginable danger.