{"product_id":"tell-borges-if-you-see-him-tales-of-contemporary-somnambulism-paperback","title":"Tell Borges If You See Him: Tales of Contemporary Somnambulism - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Lasalle\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter LaSalle is the author of several books, including both novels and story collections--most recently \u003ci\u003eWhat I Found Out About Her\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSleeping Mask: Fictions.\u003c\/i\u003e His fiction and essays have been selected for a number of award anthologies, such as \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest American Mystery Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest American Travel Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest of the West\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest American Fantasy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSports' Best Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePrize Stories: The O. Henry Awards\u003c\/i\u003e. A new collection of essays on literary travel, \u003ci\u003eThe World Is a Book Indeed: Writing, Reading, and Traveling\u003c\/i\u003e, will appear in 2020. He is a member of the creative writing faculty at the University of Texas at Austin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.6 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51817209626912,"sku":"9780820342160","price":31.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/7bd1c2937ec40a6f34d79d3b6fd34db6.webp?v=1781098209","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/tell-borges-if-you-see-him-tales-of-contemporary-somnambulism-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}