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Peter Ferry Travel Writing (Paperback)
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- Condition
- Book Title
- Travel Writing
- Publication Name
- Travel Writing
- Title
- Travel Writing
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9780156033923
- ISBN
- 9780156033923
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Year
- 2009
- Release Date
- 09/07/2009
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Width
- 5.3in
- Item Weight
- 8.7 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Topic
- General, Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, Mystery & Detective / General, Humorous / General
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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Pete Ferry, our narrator, teaches high school English in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Lake Forest and moonlights as a travel writer. On his way home after work one evening he witnesses a car accident that kills a beautiful woman named Lisa Kim. But was it an accident? Could Pete have prevented it? And did it actually happen, or is this just an elaborate tale he concocts to impart the power of story to his teenage students? Why can't he stop thinking about Lisa Kim? And what might his obsession with her mean to his relationship with his girlfriend, Lydia? With humor, tenderness, and suspense, Travel Writing takes readers on fascinating journeys, both geographical and psychological, and delves into the notion that the line between fact and fiction is often negotiable.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0156033925
ISBN-13
9780156033923
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71670810
Product Key Features
Book Title
Travel Writing
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, Mystery & Detective / General, Humorous / General
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
8.7 Oz
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Ferry''s first novel is a fresh take on the sometimes fatigued option that writers take of writing about writing, as he intelligently plays with the notions of fact and fiction, illusion and reality.... A playful, thoughtful debut., ADVANCE PRAISE FOR TRAVEL WRITING "The book is totally captivating and page-turning on one level, completely soulful and honest on another level, beautifully written and in touch with the good living of life (in a Hemingway sort of way) on another level still, and all the while it raises all kinds of fascinating questions about fiction and fact and the writing process (without ever being too clever or coy)."--Dave Eggers, author of What Is the What --, Ferry's first novel is a fresh take on the sometimes fatigued option that writers take of writing about writing, as he intelligently plays with the notions of fact and fiction, illusion and reality.... A playful, thoughtful debut., ADVANCE PRAISE FOR TRAVEL WRITING "The book is totally captivating and page-turning on one level, completely soulful and honest on another level, beautifully written and in touch with the good living of life (in a Hemingway sort of way) on another level still, and all the while it raises all kinds of fascinating questions about fiction and fact and the writing process (without ever being too clever or coy)."--Dave Eggers, author of What Is the What, Peter Ferry's carefully wrought first novel...comes alive in the classroom and on the road. What draws us into " Travel Writing " is the author's pure love of teaching and his thirst for travel., ADVANCE PRAISE FORTRAVEL WRITING "The book is totally captivating and page-turning on one level, completely soulful and honest on another level, beautifully written and in touch with the good living of life (in a Hemingway sort of way) on another level still, and all the while it raises all kinds of fascinating questions about fiction and fact and the writing process (without ever being too clever or coy)."-Dave Eggers, author ofWhat Is the What, One of those fabulously intricate novels in which you never quite know what is true and what is not--a book that becomes an exercise and exploration of the ubiquitous existence of storytelling in our lives. In other words, a perfect first novel., ADVANCE PRAISE FOR TRAVEL WRITING "The book is totally captivating and page-turning on one level, completely soulful and honest on another level, beautifully written and in touch with the good living of life (in a Hemingway sort of way) on another level still, and all the while it raises all kinds of fascinating questions about fiction and fact and the writing process (without ever being too clever or coy)."'e"Dave Eggers, author of What Is the What, ADVANCE PRAISE FOR TRAVEL WRITING "The book is totally captivating and page-turning on one level, completely soulful and honest on another level, beautifully written and in touch with the good living of life (in a Hemingway sort of way) on another level still, and all the while it raises all kinds of fascinating questions about fiction and fact and the writing process (without ever being too clever or coy)."—Dave Eggers, author of What Is the What, An ingenious novel: part mystery, part love story, partly a commentary on the art of writing fiction itself. A post-modern Rear Window with some snappy travel writing thrown in. A splendid debut by a novelist who has clearly spent a lot of time thinking about novels., Debut novelist Ferry builds his quietly tricky tale around an English teacher's amateur invstigation into a traffic fatality...The result is a novel that, for all the cleverness of its construction, is also earnest, engrossing and affecting., Peter Ferry''s first novel immediately captures the reader''s imagination, drawing you into a story filled with humour, tenderness and suspense...as entertaining as it is intriguing and not to be missed., Quietly tricky...a novel, that for all the cleverness of its construction, is also earnest, engrossing and affecting., An ingenious novel: part mystery, part love story, partly a commentary on the art of writing fiction itself. A post-modern Rear Window with some snappy travel writing thrown in. A splendid dubut by a novelist who has clearly spent a lot of time thinking about novels., ADVANCE PRAISE FOR TRAVEL WRITING "The book is totally captivating and page-turning on one level, completely soulful and honest on another level, beautifully written and in touch with the good living of life (in a Hemingway sort of way) on another level still, and all the while it raises all kinds of fascinating questions about fiction and fact and the writing process (without ever being too clever or coy)."-Dave Eggers, author of What Is the What, On the strength of his new fiction...his next signing ought to be for a multi-book deal... Travel Writing is a memoir, a travelogue, and a detective story. It's great storytelling delights., A darn good yarn, capable of taking you to that place where all you want to do is turn the next page...to see what happens next., In the cleverly constructed novel, Ferry toys with some interesting ideas, mainly the line that exists between fact and fiction., The book is totally captivating and page-turning on one level, beautifully written and in touch with the good living of life (in a Hemingway sort of way) on another level, and all the while it raises all kinds of fascinating questions about fiction and fact, the writing process and teaching of literature. That it does all this and manages to be always honest and full of soul is truly remarkable., Travel Writing is an absolute pleasure to read. It is ensnaring, funny, suspenseful, smart and poignant.... Peter Ferry fits stories within stories like mirrors reflecting mirrors to expose our assumptions about fact and the imagination. When his protagonist declares, 'I am a teacher and a storyteller in that order,' he offers a clue to the mission underliying this immensely entertaining, keenly conceived and brilliantly realized puzzle of a novel. Ferry is offering us a covert refresher course in the revelatory power of story, the responsibility of writers and the unending hunger for truth., Shockingly, it succeeds as both a rich character study and a twisty whodunit, adding one more voice to the lively conversation about the boundaries between memoir and fiction. A-, [A] winning first novel...Ferry's prose is so entrancing, his mild-mannered yet covertly audacious hero is so compelling, there is nothing intrusive or pretentious about this metafiction setup...A mordently funny and diabolically smart novel of happenstance and responsibility., Succeeds as both a rich character study and a twisty whodunit, adding one more voice to the lively converstation about the boundaries between memoir and fiction., Because of Ferry's imaginative play, the reader is never sure what really happened. In light of the recent exposes of memoirs that are really fiction, it's as if the author outright flaunts the idea, proposing fiction as memoir. For readers interested in experimental fiction and psychological puzzles; recommended for larger literary collections., Peter Ferry's first novel immediately captures the reader's imagination, drawing you into a story filled with humour, tenderness and suspense...as entertaining as it is intriguing and not to be missed., Compelling.... Ferry builds suspense skillfully.... Travel Writing illustrates the power of several kinds of story: love stories, travelogues, parables, family anecdotes, moral tales and the yarns people tell after a few beers late at night..., Debut novelist Ferry builds his quietly tricky tale around an English teacher's amateur investigation into a traffic fatality...The result is a novel that, for all the cleverness of its construction, is also earnest, engrossing and affecting., ADVANCE PRAISE FOR TRAVEL WRITING "The book is totally captivating and page-turning on one level, completely soulful and honest on another level, beautifully written and in touch with the good living of life (in a Hemingway sort of way) on another level still, and all the while it raises all kinds of fascinating questions about fiction and fact and the writing process (without ever being too clever or coy)."--Dave Eggers, author of What Is the What, ADVANCE PRAISE FOR TRAVEL WRITING "The book is totally captivating and page-turning on one level, completely soulful and honest on another level, beautifully written and in touch with the good living of life (in a Hemingway sort of way) on another level still, and all the while it raises all kinds of fascinating questions about fiction and fact and the writing process (without ever being too clever or coy)."--Dave Eggers, author of What Is the What
Copyright Date
2009
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
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