{"product_id":"borges-and-me-an-encounter-paperback","title":"Borges and Me: An Encounter - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJay Parini\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this evocative work of what the author in his afterword calls \"a kindof novelistic memoir,\" Jay Parini takes us back fifty years, when he fled the United States for Scotland--in flight from the Vietnam War and desperately in search of his adult life. There, through unlikely circumstances, he meets the famed Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorges--visiting his translator in Scotland--is in his seventies, blind and frail. When Borges hears that Parini owns a 1957 Morris Minor, he declares a long-held wish to visit the Highlands, where he hopes to meet a man in Inverness who is interested in Anglo-Saxon riddles. As they travel, stopping at various sites of historical interest, the charmingly garrulous Borges takes Parini on a grand tour of Western literature and ideas, while promising to teach him about love and poetry. As Borges's idiosyncratic world of labyrinths, mirrors, and doubles shimmers into being, their escapades take a surreal turn. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBorges and Me\u003c\/i\u003e is a classic road novel, based on true events. It's also a magical mystery tour of an era, like our own, in which uncertainties abound, and when--as ever--it's the young and the old who hear voices and dream dreams.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJay Parini is a poet, novelist, and biographer who teaches at Middlebury College. He has written eight novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Damascus Road\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBenjamin's Crossing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Apprentice Lover\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Passages of H.M.\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Last Station\u003c\/i\u003e, the last made into an Academy Award-nominated film. His biographical subjects include John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, William Faulkner, and, most recently, Gore Vidal. His nonfiction works include\u003ci\u003e Jesus: The Human Face of God\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhy Poetry Matters\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePromised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 7.95 x 5.28 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 23, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767657201952,"sku":"9781984899491","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/63de8701db479dca12ad5f6e16abfccf.webp?v=1780314536","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/borges-and-me-an-encounter-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}