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  Blinding Light (Paperback) By (author) Paul Theroux

  

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  Short Description for Blinding LightA washed-up writer sets out for Ecuador's jungle in search of a rare hallucinogen. Traveling amid a gaggle of thrill-seeking tourists, he finds his drug, which heightens both his powers of perception and his libido but leaves him with an unfortunate side effect: periodic blindness. It's a Faustian bargain he is willing to take, as long as it helps him finish his novel.
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  • Publisher: Mariner Books
  • Published: 01 June 2006
  • Format: Paperback 438 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780618711963 ISBN 10: 0618711961
  • Sales rank: 941,048

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• From the New York Times best-selling author Paul Theroux, Blinding Light is a slyly satirical novel of manners and mind expansion. Slade Steadman, a writer who has lost his chops, sets out for the Ecuadorian jungle with his ex-girlfriend in search of inspiration and a rare hallucinogen. The drug, once found, heightens both his powers of perception and his libido, but it also leaves him with an unfortunate side effect: periodic blindness. Unable to resist the insights that enable him to write again, Steadman spends the next year of his life in thrall to his psychedelic muse and his erotic fantasies, with consequences that are both ecstatic and disastrous.