Alexander Theroux
Alexander Theroux
Alexander Louis Therouxis an American novelist and poet whose best known novel is perhaps Darconville’s Catwhich was selected by Anthony Burgess’s Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 – A Personal Choice in 1984 and in Larry McCaffery’s 20th Century’s Greatest Hits He was awarded the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction in 1991 and the Clifton Fadiman Medal for Fiction in 2002 by the Mercantile Library in New York City. He is the brother of novelist Paul Theroux...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
Alexander Theroux quotes about
I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.
There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.
We all end up living secret lives. We create what we are willing to admire and admiring what we shouldn't confess to the secret ofour own sin, our own insufficiency, our own sadness. We all end up taking our secrets into the world and handing them over to strangers, only to realize it's often too late to claim them back. The very nature of time passing is sad beyond words. Memories mean they're gone.