My secret history

Paul Theroux

earliest edition we have, 1989 Putnam's, 1989 511 pages

Brilliantly written, erotically charged, My Secret History is Paul Theroux's tour de force. It is the story of Andre Parent, a writer, a world traveller, a lover of every kind of woman he chances to meet in a life as varied as a man can lead. It begins with his days as a Massachusetts altar boy, when his first furtive sexual encounter introduces him to the thrills of leading a double life. As a teenaged lifeguard, A...

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Editions we hold

My Secret History edition · 2011 · Penguin Books, Limited · 576 pages · 9780241950494
My Secret History edition · 2011 · Penguin Books, Limited · 9780241959244
My secret history edition · 1996 · Fawcett Columbine · 511 pages
Mon histoire secrète paperback · 1991 · Robert Laffont · 523 pages · 9782221064818
My secret history edition · 1990 · Penguin · 544 pages
My Secret History paperback · 1990 · Ivy Books · 444 pages · 9780804105149
My Secret History-O.M. paperback · 1989 · Ivy Books · 9780804105590
My secret history edition · 1989 · Hamilton · 511 pages
My secret history edition · 1989 · Putnam's · 511 pages

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