# My Secret History

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- Book: [My Secret History](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-theroux/my-secret-history) ([My Secret History.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-theroux/my-secret-history.md))
- Authors: [Paul Theroux](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-theroux)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4195-049-4
- Pages: 576
- Published: 2011-02-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Nothing on the shelf has quite prepared the reader for My Secret History . . . Parent saunters into the book aged fifteen, shouldering a .22 Mossberg rifle as earlier, more innocent American heroes used to tote a fishing pole. In his pocket is a paperback translation of Dante's Inferno . . . He is a creature of naked and unquenchable ego, greedy for sex, money, experience, another life' Jonathan Raban, Observer