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Saint Jack
A Literary Fiction Novel by Paul Theroux
Subgenres:
- Singapore,
- Dark Comedy,
- Midlife Crisis
This book is for you if you're into...
- Seedy expat underworlds in 1970s Singapore
- Comic novels with biting humor about sex and survival
- Flawed hustlers facing midlife reckoning
An American pimp in Singapore finds his life of pleasure turning against him in this comic novel by the acclaimed author of The Great Railway Bazaar.
Once a small-time American hustler, Jack Flowers found his calling when he jumped into the Straits of Malacca and hitched a ride to Singapore. Deftly identifying the fastest route to fame along the seedy port, Jack started hiring girls out to lonely tourists, sailors, bachelors—anyone with some loose change and a wandering eye.
Some years later, he's running two pleasure palaces and something of a legend among those in the know.
But just as Jack is riding high, a shocking tumble toward the brink of death leaves him shaken, depressed and vulnerable. Desperate to pull himself back up, he's quick to do business with Edwin Shuck, a powerful American working to take down an unsuspecting general.
Marked with Paul Theroux's trademark biting humor, Saint Jack is an audacious tale of sex, faith, guilt, innocence, middle-age, and the meaning of it all.
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