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The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro
- Author
- Paul Theroux
- Narrator
- Nathan Nolan
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd.
- Publish Date
- 1 November 2023
- Run Time
- 8 hours 33 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
A young American walks into Sicily's Palazzo d'Oro during the '60s. Penniless, but swaggering with youth and burgeoning artistic talent, he accepts a proposition to become the companion to a beautiful and beguiling aristocrat. Their affair- formal and restrained by day, torrid and passionate by night - leads him to a place where nothing, not even his lover, is what it seems. This novella and three other tales explore the underbelly of sexual desire and together make up one of Paul Theroux's most compelling works yet.
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- Author
- Paul Theroux
- Narrator
- Nathan Nolan
- Duration
- 8 hours 33 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 November 2023
- ISBN
- 9781004149698
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd.
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
Award-winning writer Paul Theroux tells four exhilarating stories of desire in which nothing is as it seems in The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro.A young American walks into Sicily's Palazzo d'Oro during the '60s. Penniless, but swaggering with youth and burgeoning artistic talent, he accepts a proposition to become the companion to a beautiful and beguiling aristocrat. Their affair- formal and restrained by day, torrid and passionate by night - leads him to a place where nothing, not even his lover, is what it seems. This novella and three other tales explore the underbelly of sexual desire and together make up one of Paul Theroux's most compelling works yet.
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