Title : Patagonia Express - Paul Theroux - book

Summary :

“I was studying the map when it occurred to me that there was a railroad line that ran from my home in Massachusetts to the great Patagonian plateau.” So Paul Theroux, one fine winter morning, set off. By subway, a few blocks from his Medford home to the Boston train station, then by train to mythical Patagonia, from the blizzard-battered slopes of Fitzwilliams to the dry, hot winds of the Pampas, from the lavish luxury cars to the pitiful squirrels. Sweating and shivering at the mercy of capricious altitudes and temperatures, having to put up with the dreadful Mr. Thorneberry in Costa Rica and spending nights reading to the blind writer Jorge Borges in Buenos Aires, meeting by chance at a stopover the exact copy of a fictional character from one of his previous novels... Paul Theroux, inventor of an original form in literature that combines travel and adventure, story and drama, takes the reader on a dizzying journey, one that leads "to the end of the line."

• EAN : 9782246710424
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