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Having first appeared in distinguished publications here and abroad, including The Best American Travel Writing, these are beautifully crafted pieces-heartfelt, honest, observant-that conjure up those fine moments when travel does intersect with the important role of literature in our lives.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50394064617745,"sku":"CIN1938103203G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52820952187153,"sku":"NLS9781938103209","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1938103203.jpg?v=1750727447"},{"product_id":"tell-borges-if-you-see-him-book-peter-lasalle-9780820342160","title":"Tell Borges If You See Him","description":"To be untethered in the waking world, to have the feeling that perhaps we are sleepwalking-that's what life can be like for the people in these eleven stories by Peter LaSalle, known to readers of leading literary magazines for his luminous prose style and narrative daring.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52335879454993,"sku":"NLS9780820342160","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52740341891345,"sku":"NIN9780820342160","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780820342160.jpg?v=1758161490"},{"product_id":"what-i-found-out-about-her-book-peter-lasalle-9780268207175","title":"What I Found Out About Her","description":"What I Found Out About Her: Stories of Dreaming American, winner of the 2014 Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, reaffirms Peter LaSalle's reputation as one of the most startlingly original writers working in the short fiction genre today.   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A summer spent roaming the lesser-known quarters of Paris finds LaSalle haunted by the work of the French surrealists. In Hanoi, he meets for beers with the editors - two military men - of the Army Literature and Arts Magazine while investigating Vietnam's acknowledged great modern novel, Bao Ninh's The Sorrow of War. A strange nighttime drive with a dear friend through the streets of sprawling Sao Paulo, searching for landmarks associated with modernist Brazilian poetry, takes on grave weight when he learns of his friend's death shortly afterward. The outright adventure of bouncing around Africa to interview writers there when very young - looked back on now - moves toward a theory of the perhaps dreamlike tenor of any travel, especially when done alone. An account of Jorge Luis Borges's stay in Texas explores how the place made such a lasting impression on the Argentinian writer. Additional pieces bring LaSalle to Istanbul, Lisbon, Tunis, and elsewhere, as he considers major writers amid the settings that produced their works, all the while contemplating larger ideas engendered by travel, from issues of international politics to metaphysical understandings of time.   Deeply felt and replete with insight into literature and life, this is a collection for readers who love books and want to learn more about the places they originated, presented by a well-traveled guide with an intimate voice and a gift for the essay form.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52692597440785,"sku":"NLS9780807173961","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52740186865937,"sku":"NIN9780807173961","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52816806740241,"sku":"CIN0807173967G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780807173961.jpg?v=1762595950"},{"product_id":"hockey-sur-glace-book-peter-lasalle-9781891369001","title":"Hockey Sur Glace","description":"Literary short stories on the place of ice hockey in our lives and imaginations.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52756509753617,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52756510441745,"sku":"NIN9781891369001","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781891369001.jpg?v=1763576363"},{"product_id":"sleeping-mask-book-peter-lasalle-9781942658184","title":"Sleeping Mask","description":"Mind-bending tales of passion, obsession, and brutality from an award-winning master of short fiction","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52820935639313,"sku":"NLS9781942658184","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781942658184.jpg?v=1764330865"},{"product_id":"hockey-sur-glace-book-peter-lasalle-9781558215054","title":"Hockey sur Glace","description":"Literary short stories on the place of ice hockey in our lives and imaginations.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53358081802513,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53358082294033,"sku":"CIN1558215050VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781558215054.jpg?v=1774905456"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/collections\/author-books-by-peter-lasalle.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}