The Pebble Chance: Feuilletons and Other Prose by Kociejowski, Marius

The Pebble Chance: Feuilletons and Other Prose (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781927428771)

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The Pebble Chance: Feuilletons and Other Prose by Kociejowski, Marius

The Pebble Chance: Feuilletons and Other Prose

$18.95
The Pebble Chance: Feuilletons and Other Prose by Kociejowski, Marius

The Pebble Chance: Feuilletons and Other Prose

$18.95
Format: Paperback
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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 fortune.

Carried by keen wit, aphoristic prose, and a rich sense of characterization, and featuring chance meetings and comic misadventures with such figures as Bruce Chatwin, Zbigniew Herbert, and Javier Mar as, The Pebble Chance is a sumptuous offering of belles lettres exploring the incandescent moments when skill and providence collide.


Author: Marius Kociejowski
ISBN-10: 1927428777
ISBN-13: 9781927428771
Publisher: Biblioasis
Language: English
Published: 12/16/2014
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.10w x 0.70d
By Marius Kociejowski
By Marius Kociejowski
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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 Journey (Sutton Publishing), The Pigeon Wars of Damascus (Biblioasis), God's Zoo (Carcanet) and an anthology, Syria through Writers' Eyes (Eland).

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