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The Pebble Chance. Feuilletons and Other Prose.
Marius Kociejowski
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Description for The Pebble Chance. Feuilletons and Other Prose.
Paperback. Essays and anecdotes from travel-writer, poet, and bookseller Marius Kociejowski, including pieces on encounters with Bruce Chatwin and Javier Marias. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 263.
"Kociejowski draws on all the aspects of his life in these engaging, idiosyncratic personal essays ...[that] proffer the reader equal measures of autobiography, insight and quirky charm." --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post In the game of bocce, no matter how intensely you study the world's surface, there is always a chance an unseen pebble will knock your ball in an unexpected direction. In these essays, poet, antiquarian bookseller, and celebrated travel writer Marius Kociejowski chronicles serendipitous encounters with authors, manuscripts, and eccentrics, in which "the curious workings of fate" and "art's unbidden swerve" intervene to shift the course of ... Read more
"Kociejowski draws on all the aspects of his life in these engaging, idiosyncratic personal essays ...[that] proffer the reader equal measures of autobiography, insight and quirky charm." --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post In the game of bocce, no matter how intensely you study the world's surface, there is always a chance an unseen pebble will knock your ball in an unexpected direction. In these essays, poet, antiquarian bookseller, and celebrated travel writer Marius Kociejowski chronicles serendipitous encounters with authors, manuscripts, and eccentrics, in which "the curious workings of fate" and "art's unbidden swerve" intervene to shift the course of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Biblioasis Canada
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Emeryville, Canada
ISBN
9781927428771
SKU
V9781927428771
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About Marius Kociejowski
Marius Kociejowski, poet, essayist and travel writer, lives in London. He has published four collections of poetry, Coast (Greville Press), Doctor Honoris Causa, and Music's Bride (both Anvil Press). So Dance the Lords of Language - poems 1975-2001 was published in Canada by Porcupine's Quill in 2003. Most recently, he published The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool: A Syrian ... Read more
Reviews for The Pebble Chance. Feuilletons and Other Prose.
PRAISE FOR MARIAS KOCIEJOWSKI "Here the charm is deep, the splendour unlaboured; the colours of history, reckoned afresh, saturate singular people, in whom passion is lucid again...here is one who collects his extraordinary resources, and strides."
Christopher Middleton "It is a testament to the power of this superb book that I felt not despondency, but ... elation."
Adam Thorpe, The Times Literary ... Read more
Christopher Middleton "It is a testament to the power of this superb book that I felt not despondency, but ... elation."
Adam Thorpe, The Times Literary ... Read more