{"product_id":"my-secret-history","title":"My Secret History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Written with a rare intensity of both intelligence and feeling. . . a superbly realistic evocation of the journeys (both dark and comical) of the human heart' Salman Rushdie, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e My Secret History\u003c\/i\u003e, award-winning writer Paul Theroux offers the reader an exciting insight into the double-life of Andre Parent in six compelling snapshots. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Nothing on the shelf has quite prepared the reader of \u003ci\u003eMy Secret History. . . \u003c\/i\u003eParent saunters into the book aged fifteen, shouldering a .22 Mossberg rifle as earlier, more innocent American heroes used to tote a fishing pole. In his pocket is a paperback translation of Dante's Inferno. . . he is a creature of naked and unquenchable ego, greedy for sex, money, experience, another life' Jonathan Raban, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Theroux's best creation, a character who is honest enough to know that he wants it both ways: to be the lover and also the solitary observer who betrays his loves by turning them into stories' \u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Theroux's best fiction to date...combines the surfaces of memoir and travelogue with cunning fiction' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Sharp, exact, very evocative. . . both disturbing and entertaining' Anthony Burgess, \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54226905334104,"sku":"9780241950494","price":22.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780241950494.jpg?v=1764817243","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/my-secret-history","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}