My Other Life Author:Paul Theroux A book about doubt and double identity. Its narrator, Paul Theroux, is a man in the middle of a crack-up -- a husband who loses his wife; a traveller who goes off the reails; a novelist who stops writing; a self-seeker who can find himself only in aliases ... My Other Life is oddly generous, hugely readable and highly quotable. It's one man's ... more »life, but Everyman's crisis. It seems honest. Even if it isn't honest, it's true. -- Blake Morrison in the Independent on Sunday.« less