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Fresh Air Fiend assembles Paul Theroux’s essays and articles written over a fifteen‑year period, revealing the intimate bond between his itinerant life and literary craft. The collection charts a wide array of settings—from the solitary, snow‑bound forests of Maine to the electric streets of Hong Kong on the eve of the Hand‑over, and even to a Pacific island scarred by atomic testing—showing how distance and immersion allow Theroux to "become a stranger" and discover new facets of the self.
First publish date: 2000
Genre: Travel & Geography/Travel Writing
Authors: Paul Theroux
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