My Other Life A Novel Author:Paul Theroux Best-selling writer Paul Theroux takes us on a journey over a career spanning 30 years. Complex, candid, and confessional, he reconstructs his fictitious past, giving it wit and life, tragedy and pathos. With enormous insight and self-knowledge Theroux divulges his belief in secrets: the fake occupations he has given himself - particle physicist... more », cartographer, teacher; the false names; and the absurd, synchronistic events of his life.« less