{"product_id":"saint-jack","title":"Saint Jack","description":"\u003cp\u003eAward-winning writer Paul Theroux explores the darker underside of the community of expatriates in South-East Asia in his compelling and strikingly honest novel \u003ci\u003eSaint Jack\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJack Flowers, saint or sinner, caught a passing bumboat into Singapore and got a job as a water-clerk to a Chinese ship chandler. Now, on the side, he offers girls (indeed 'anything, anything at all') to tourists, sailors, residents and expatriates, but he is haunted by his lack of worldly success and his fifty-three years weight heavily on him. So when he agrees to act as blackmailer for the faintly sinister American Edwin Shuck in a plot against a general from Vietnam, he has high, not to mention wild, hopes of triumph.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese are the outrageous confessions of an ingenious conman in the seedy and unforgettable world of expatriates amidst imperial ruins.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A witty, subtle, often moving self-portrait of a memorable rogue' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Theroux's prose it rich, his perceptions so many-layered, he involves us in a world that extends well beyond the physical limits of his novel'\u003ci\u003e The Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmerican travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his novels and collected short stories,\u003ci\u003e My Other Life\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMy Secret History\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e The Lower River\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Dead Hand\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMillroy the Magician\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Elephanta Suite\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Consul's File\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Family Arsenal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Mosquito Coast\u003c\/i\u003e, and his works of non-fiction, including the iconic \u003ci\u003eThe Great Railway Bazaar \u003c\/i\u003eare available from Penguin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54221643252056,"sku":"9780241955147","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780241955147_2b9f1778-e302-4da9-853c-9b1887dc4bb0.jpg?v=1764665126","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/saint-jack","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}