{"product_id":"the-glimpse-traveler-break-away-books-9780253223449","title":"The Glimpse Traveler Break Away Books","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA cross-country road trip in the tradition of Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e[T]his book ha[s] a distinctive writing style. Boruch is a poet and English professor, so she has a beautiful way with words. \u003c\/p\u003e * www.sophisticateddorkiness.com *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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. \u003c\/p\u003e * shereadsandreads.blogspot.com *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Glimpse Traveler \u003c\/i\u003eis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e * uponwakingup.blogspot.com *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Glimpse Traveler\u003c\/i\u003e sets the past glimmering with fragments of remembered light. \u003c\/p\u003e * Bloom Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a frank poignancy which paints the experience as neither good or bad but merely a truly unique experience like none other, \u003ci\u003eThe Glimpse Traveler\u003c\/i\u003e is a thoughtful and much recommended pick. \u003c\/p\u003e * The Midwest Book Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003emoment of history\u003c\/i\u003e,' exclaims Boruch's narrator, invoking memory's ancient muse, 'be specific and huge,' a summons to which \u003ci\u003eThe Glimpse Traveler\u003c\/i\u003e answers in full.\u003c\/p\u003e * Indiana Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost exceptional is Marianne Boruch's \u003ci\u003eThe Glimpse Traveler\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e * Fourth Genre *","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400669602135,"sku":"9780253223449","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253223449.jpg?v=1730471253","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-glimpse-traveler-break-away-books-9780253223449","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}