Mr. Bones

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The 30th work of fiction by the renowned author and travel writer, this is a new collection of short stories set in locations ranging from Uganda and Quebec to London and New York. Theroux explores the tenuous leadership of the elite and the surprising revenge of the overlooked. A renowned art collector relishes in publically destroying his most valuable pieces. Two boys stand by helplessly as their father stages an all-consuming war on the raccoons living in the woods around their house. A young artist devotes himself to a wealthy, malicious gossip. Deliciously dark.