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Alexander Theroux

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Medford, Massachusetts, The United States

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male

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Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction

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Alexander Theroux is a novelist, poet, and essayist. The most apt description of the novels of Theroux was given by Anthony Burgess in praise of Theroux's Darconville's Cat: Theroux is 'word drunk', filling his novels with a torrent of words archaic and neologic, always striving for originality, while drawing from the traditions of Rolfe, Rabelais, Sterne, and Nabakov.

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Average rating: 3.75 · 6,992 ratings · 423 reviews · 15 distinct works

	Strange Case of Edward Gorey by Alexander Theroux, Edward Gorey 3.66 avg rating — 158 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Darconville's Cat 4.22 avg rating — 83 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Primary Colors: Three Essays 3.95 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Laura Warholic: Or the Sexual Intellectual 3.51 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	An Adultery 3.89 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1987 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Secondary Colors: Three Essays 4.05 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Three Wogs: A Novel 3.72 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1972 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Master Snickup's Cloak by Alexander Theroux, Brian Froud (Illustrator) 4.63 avg rating — 19 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Enigma of Al Capp 3.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Estonia: A Ramble Through the Periphery 2.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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“September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.”
― Alexander Theroux

tags: regret , september , swallows

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“Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.”
― Alexander Theroux, Darconville's Cat

tags: dictionary , humor , vocabulary

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“I thought... their elegance... lies not so much in their
clothes as in their bodies, and their bodies have received it, and continue to unceasingly receive it, from their souls, which are just like yours, lovely Simonetta.”
― Alexander Theroux

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