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The Glimpse Traveler
Marianne Boruch
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Description for The Glimpse Traveler
paperback. A cross-country road trip in the tradition of Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance Series: Break Away Books. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPL; JFCA; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 4522 x 3226 x 23. Weight in Grams: 227.
When she joins a pair of hitchhikers on a trip to California, a young Midwestern woman embarks on a journey about memory and knowledge, beauty and realization. This true story, set in 1971, recounts a fateful, nine-day trip into the American counterculture that begins on a whim and quickly becomes a mission to unravel a tragic mystery. The narrator's path leads her to Berkeley, San Francisco, Mill Valley, Big Sur, and finally to an abandoned resort motel, now become a down-on-its-luck commune in the desert of southern Colorado. Neither a memoir about private misery, nor a shocking exposé of life in a turbulent era, The Glimpse Traveler describes with wry humor and deep feeling what it was like to witness a peculiar and impossibly rich time.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Break Away Books
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253223449
SKU
V9780253223449
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99-50
About Marianne Boruch
Marianne Boruch, a poet, is Professor of English at Purdue University. She has published several poetry collections and two books of essays, and her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Nation, and elsewhere. She has won two Pushcart Prizes, the Parnassus Terrence DePres Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.
Reviews for The Glimpse Traveler
[T]his book ha[s] a distinctive writing style. Boruch is a poet and English professor, so she has a beautiful way with words.
www.sophisticateddorkiness.com
What Marianne Boruch has done in this memoir is nothing short of extraordinary: nearly 40 years after the fact, she has managed to recreate a road trip—and a time period—so wholly that I felt like I was there.
shereadsandreads.blogspot.com
This slender volume by poet and essayist Boruch . . . will transport readers to a time when a nation's youth searched for meaning against the backdrop of the Vietnam War.
Publishers Weekly
The Glimpse Traveler is more than a book written about a generation; this is a book about memory and how we recall the intense moments of our lives. Most writers would reveal the story in long chapters, steeped with descriptions and dialogue, but Boruch offers us something different: the way memories are really revealed.
uponwakingup.blogspot.com
The Glimpse Traveler sets the past glimmering with fragments of remembered light.
Bloom Magazine
With a frank poignancy which paints the experience as neither good or bad but merely a truly unique experience like none other, The Glimpse Traveler is a thoughtful and much recommended pick.
The Midwest Book Review
The journey of this memoir is not only one from this side of the country to the other, a mere matter of mileage, but from this point in time to a point somewhere in memory, a distance measured in decades, that blurs and disappears as soon as it arrives. 'Oh moment of history,' exclaims Boruch's narrator, invoking memory's ancient muse, 'be specific and huge,' a summons to which The Glimpse Traveler answers in full.
Indiana Review
Most exceptional is Marianne Boruch's The Glimpse Traveler, published by Indiana University Press. . . . There are so many goodies in this book. Boruch lingers in the most intriguing moments of their absurdly haphazard journey across the country with an awareness of the clichés of the time. . . . The book clips along at an addictive pace and in what seems like no time at all reaches its staggering climax and then concludes with an equally stunning finale.
Fourth Genre
www.sophisticateddorkiness.com
What Marianne Boruch has done in this memoir is nothing short of extraordinary: nearly 40 years after the fact, she has managed to recreate a road trip—and a time period—so wholly that I felt like I was there.
shereadsandreads.blogspot.com
This slender volume by poet and essayist Boruch . . . will transport readers to a time when a nation's youth searched for meaning against the backdrop of the Vietnam War.
Publishers Weekly
The Glimpse Traveler is more than a book written about a generation; this is a book about memory and how we recall the intense moments of our lives. Most writers would reveal the story in long chapters, steeped with descriptions and dialogue, but Boruch offers us something different: the way memories are really revealed.
uponwakingup.blogspot.com
The Glimpse Traveler sets the past glimmering with fragments of remembered light.
Bloom Magazine
With a frank poignancy which paints the experience as neither good or bad but merely a truly unique experience like none other, The Glimpse Traveler is a thoughtful and much recommended pick.
The Midwest Book Review
The journey of this memoir is not only one from this side of the country to the other, a mere matter of mileage, but from this point in time to a point somewhere in memory, a distance measured in decades, that blurs and disappears as soon as it arrives. 'Oh moment of history,' exclaims Boruch's narrator, invoking memory's ancient muse, 'be specific and huge,' a summons to which The Glimpse Traveler answers in full.
Indiana Review
Most exceptional is Marianne Boruch's The Glimpse Traveler, published by Indiana University Press. . . . There are so many goodies in this book. Boruch lingers in the most intriguing moments of their absurdly haphazard journey across the country with an awareness of the clichés of the time. . . . The book clips along at an addictive pace and in what seems like no time at all reaches its staggering climax and then concludes with an equally stunning finale.
Fourth Genre