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Girls At Play is the third novel by American author Paul Theroux published in 1969 by Houghton Mifflin in the US and by The Bodley Head in the UK. It is set in 1967 in a girls school in Kenya (though throughout it is only referred to as being in East Africa).
Early (1969) Theroux novel tells of three expatriate women (a British spinster, a British vamp, and an American Peace Corps volunteer) managing and mismanaging a rural school and themselves in post-Independence Kenya (referred to as East Africa throughout).
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Jan 1, 1983 · An early novel from the prolific Paul Theroux, Girls at Play (1970) chronicles the tragicomic doings of a group of white female teachers in a backwoods African girls school shortly after the (unnamed) host country became independent in the late 60s.
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Nov 2, 2011 · Girls at play. by. Theroux, Paul. Publication date. 1969. Publisher. Boston, Houghton Mifflin. Collection. internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled.
Theroux's 1975 best-seller, The Great Railway Bazaar, takes the reader through Asia, while his second book about train travel, The Old Patagonian Express (1979), describes his...
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