Description
In 1970s Singapore, Jack Flowers runs the Paradise Gardens, a brothel catering to American servicemen on leave from the Vietnam War. A charismatic survivor with a gift for reinvention, Jack sees himself as a benevolent “saint,” even as his livelihood exposes the contradictions between compassion, exploitation, and self-interest. Against a vivid backdrop of colonial decay, wartime commerce, and the city’s nightlife, the novel follows his uneasy pursuit of independence and respectability. Evocative, darkly comic, and morally ambivalent, it is a sharp portrait of an outsider trying to make a place for himself in a world that rewards deception.
Available Editions
paperback
Houghton Mifflin
Published Jan 1, 1973
247 pages
ISBN: 9780395171189
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Details
First Published
1973
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Saint Jack by Paul Theroux.