{"product_id":"tell-borges-if-you-see-peter-lasalle-9780820342160","title":"Tell Borges If You See Him: Tales of Contemporary Somnambulism","description":"\u003cp\u003eTo 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe characters range from a fragile, and very rich, Mount Holyoke College girl in Paris to an out-of-work American businessman caught up in an international financial scam in Buenos Aires; from a happy-go-lucky old piano-lounge performer, once famous in all the New England seaside resorts, to a quartet of passengers on a bus barreling across the Mexican desert on Christmas Eve--and heading right toward a nightmarish encounter indeed on the road. In one story, a troubled guy who is somehow both himself on a hockey scholarship at Harvard in the sixties and himself a few decades later, meets his beautiful lost girlfriend at a long-gone Cambridge cafeteria. The busboys become hovering angels. Time slips backward and forward. Things that happened may not have happened. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile rich with specific detail of character and place, these stories also tap into the stranger kind of clarity that does come, paradoxically, from subtle disorientation, as found in innovators like Nabokov and Borges. LaSalle's lovely, rhythmic sentences, in which an aside can sometimes be the central concern, create a captivating permeability in the boundary between real and unreal while always enchanting with their power simply to tell a moving story. This is very original short fiction that aspires to nothing less than reasserting the wonderful possibilities of the genre--or, as the narrator of the story \"The End of Narrative\" ultimately suggests: \"Maybe narrative hadn't ended, which is to say, hasn't ended.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lasalle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820342165\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820342160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.60h x 4.90w x 0.90d","brand":"Peter Lasalle","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44059868987647,"sku":"9780820342160","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b023161f-1f63-4f43-8290-b2866807eb03.jpg?v=1685060795","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tell-borges-if-you-see-peter-lasalle-9780820342160","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}