Overview
""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 Maras, The Pebble Chance is a sumptuous offering of belles lettres exploring the incandescent moments when skill and providence collide.
Full Product Details
Author: Marius Kociejowski
Publisher: Biblioasis
Imprint: Biblioasis
Dimensions:
Width: 12.70cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 19.00cm
Weight: 0.269kg
ISBN: 9781927428771
ISBN 10: 1927428777
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 01 January 2015
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
PRAISE FOR MARIAS KOCIEJOWSKI Here the charm is deep, the splendour unlaboured; the colours of history, reckoned afresh, saturate singular people, in whom passion is lucid again...here is one who collects his extraordinary resources, and strides. --Christopher Middleton It is a testament to the power of this superb book that I felt not despondency, but ... elation. --Adam Thorpe, The Times Literary Supplement Treasures are revealed ... with a formidable erudition, and at their best they gleam with an enameled splendour. --Ken Babstock, The Globe and Mail Kociejowski writes beautifully ... unusual, poetic, and thought-provoking. --Library Journal
Author Information
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).
