The Pebble Chance : Feuilletons and Other Prose, EPUB eBook

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"Kociejowski draws on all these 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.

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