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 enlarge | Author: Moritz Thomsen
Creator: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 520048
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 284
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.8 x 1
ISBN: 1555971245
Dewey Decimal Number: 918.10463
EAN: 9781555971243
ASIN: 1555971245
Publication Date: February 1, 1990
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 A must for RPCV reflection May 1, 2000
6 out of 11 found this review helpful
Thomsen touches on so many aspects of the struggle to assimilate with an adopted culture only to realize that we can only be native to one culture. For as much as Living Poor is the handbook for current and future PCVs, The Saddest Pleasure may the best COS material available.
 Sad, yes. Pleasure, no. January 17, 2000
4 out of 10 found this review helpful
I've never read any of Thomsen's works before this and maybe it was a mistake to make this the first. Is it possible this is not the best choice for my first exposure to Thomsen? I have never had such trouble getting into a book before. I finished it on principle but not because the book engaged me in any way. It is beautifully written but rambles on and on. Put me to sleep every time I opened it which made it nearly impossible to finish.
Great Book. March 2, 1999
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is the only book which, having just completed reading, I have immediately reread.
A writer faces down both his own past and unavoidable death. February 8, 1999
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Having read Living Poor, Farm on the River of Emeralds and Journey of Two Rivers, I savored every line, every word of Thomsen's last work. What beautiful insight, honesty, and soul. My favorite narrative, perhaps ever.
a beautifully sensitive author discovered. September 19, 1998
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Thomsen writes of traveling through Brazil and on the Amazon while remembering his unrecon-ciled struggle with his father and his hard ten years living poor on a farm in Ecuador. This is one of the very best books I have read, and I am 78! That Paul Theroux is his friend and wrote the Inro is one more recommendation.
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