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Blinding Light

Blinding Light

Author(s): Paul Theroux

Location(s): Ecuador

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Modern

A 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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