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The World Is a Book, Indeed : Writing, Reading, and Traveling /
"The World Is a Book, Indeed" takes readers to Paris, Hanoi, Central Africa, São Paulo, and Istanbul, among other places, with engaging personal accounts that build on the convergence of writing, reading, and traveling. Peter LaSalle's expansive essays consider great writers amid the...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2020]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Boston. Reading and Blizzards
- Paris. Au Train de Vie: That Voice You Hear When Traveling
- Vietnam. My New Literary Credo, via Hanoi ; In Vietnam with Bao Ninh's Masterpiece, The Sorrow of War
- São Paulo. Driving in São Paulo at Night with a Good Friend Who Has Died
- Africa. Honorary Africanist ; To Read a Continent: Reviewing Boetie, Updike, Coetzee, Naipaul, and Gordimer; Plus a Poem, "African Airports"
- Lisbon. June 2016: A Brief, Very Personal History of Portuguese Literature
- Tunis. Je Suis Americain: A Telling Exchange during the G.W. Bush Administration
- Austin by Way of Buenos Aires. A Desk for Borges
- Istanbul. Invisible Travel: A Cycle Concerning the Creative Imagination in Nine Parts.