Books
July, 1989
No one has written about the inner life of the American male lately with more comic, poignant candor than Paul Theroux in his new novel, My Secret History (Putnam). Like Hemingway, Theroux travels to exotic locales for adventure; like Updike, he has a wry and urbane self-consciousness; and like Henry Miller, he revels in the multifaceted joys of sex.Told in the first person by Theroux's alter-ego narrator, Andy Parent, this book begins withAndy's sexual initiation as a Boston altar boy in the Fi...
