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Saint Jack
By Paul Theroux
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Jack 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 weigh 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.
These are the outrageous confessions of an ingenious con man in the seedy and unforgettable world of expatriates amidst imperial ruins.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherPenguin
Release dateAug 4, 2011
ISBN9780141971636
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Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux is the author of many highly acclaimed books. His novels include Burma Sahib, The Bad Angel Brothers, The Lower River, Jungle Lovers, and The Mosquito Coast, and his renowned travel books include Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, On the Plain of Snakes, and Dark Star Safari. He lives in Hawaii and on Cape Cod.
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Oct 23, 2022
Men have no double standard to hold them back from doing things like going to a foreign country and staying on there, thinking at first they'll just stay awhile, long enough to make their fortune, and then go home, settle down and live the good life. But what if they never make their fortune at anything, and just kind of limp along, their inertia growing. Until they realize they're old. An American pimp and ship Chandler in Singapore tries different ways of making his fortune. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Apr 10, 2011
I hadn't read any of Paul Theroux's books in many years, but I'm glad I grabbed this one off the library shelf. Bostonian Jack Fiori jumps ship in Singapore and invents a new life for himself as Jack Flowers, procurer extraordinary. The novel explores his coming to terms wit the false personas that he and his bar mates cultivate.