Under the Wave at WaimeaTherouxs work is like no one elses. Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review From legendary writer Paul Theroux comes an atmospheric novel following a big wave surfer as he confronts aging, privilege, mortality, and whose lives we choose to remember. Now in his sixties, big wave surfer Joe Sharkey has passed his prime and is losing his stoke. The younger surfers around the breaks on the north shore of Oahu still idolize the Shark, but his sponsors

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you'll be swept away by all of it

Their scandalous pasts have left them wounded and unworthy—and hopelessly perfect together

An utterly engrossing and thoroughly entertaining story

Western Quarterly Review

with all its conflicts

On Loss and Finding: The story of a devastating burglary

Nax and his fellow failures plan to pull off a dangerous heist to spread the truth

who was condemned to death as a heretic

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but it’s tough