Saint Jack
A Novel

Aging hustler handles hussies, halts at harm When Paul Theroux was young, before he REALLY soured on the world, he wrote some brilliant, pleasantly-comical novels and stories. This is one of them, the tale of an American pimp in Singapore, whose cover is to be a ship chandling agent for a local Chine......more

Man, did this bring back memories… Long before he became "the train guy," Paul Theroux was a novelist, writing books about messed-up Americans abroad like The Jungle Lovers, The Mosquito Coast andSaint Jack. And while I don't have first-hand experience in - and so can't really comment on - Africa or......more

Tengo dos cosas pendientes desde hace mucho tiempo. La primera es que tengo unas ganas locas de conocer Singapur, probablemente porque lo asocio con un lugar que es lo suficientemente exótico y con la suficiente pátina de occidentalidad para no ser un shock y además porque es cosmopolita y fancy. La......more

This is a poignant reflection of a middle-aged, expat pimp, "Saint" Jack Flowers. He reflects on his victories and losses as he scrambles to try and make a nest egg for himself in Singapore from the late 50's through the mid 70's. He knows he's on the downside of the slope and that hopes for material......more

Perhaps one of funniest first-person literary unravelings on middle-age. There's a rich yet subversive sadness that permeates this novel, episodes cloaked with wise-assed recollections and somber gratitudes. Saint Jack is such a great character, his cloth cut from Woody Allen interpreting Graham Gre......more