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Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers | Joyce Carol Oates, Frances Mayes, Alexander McCall Smith, Bryce Courtenay, Téa Obreht , DBC Pierre, Peter Matthiessen, Stefan Merrill Block, Kurt Andersen, M J Hyland

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A collection of original travel stories told by some of the world's best novelists, including Isabel Allende, Keri Hulme, Peter Matthiessen, Alexander McCall Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, Tea Obreht and DBC Pierre. Exhilaratingly varied in place, plot, and voice, these tales all share one common characteristic: They manifest a passion for the precious gifts that travel confers, from its unexpected but inevitably enriching lessons about other peoples and places to the truths - sometimes uncomfortable but always enlarging - it reveals about ourselves. '... a brilliant collection of travel stories ... threaded with great warmth, as readers are invited to travel in the company of these famous authors and experience their passions and revelations.' Bookseller+Publisher

BarbaraJean

so-so

It wasn‘t. Better than fiction, that is.š‰

I was disappointed in this collection of travel stories. There were a few I really liked (the Bryce Courtenay one especially), but overall, there wasn‘t enough depth to each story. There was also a bit too much of the Westerner using locals as props for a story, which bothered me a lot. I was looking for more reflection, more exploration of how travel can change us and deepen our perception of the world.

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BookishBelle

#somethingforsept day 29: short stories. These are the only three collections of short stories I have. Two of them are from school and one was a gift. Perhaps I should start reading more short stories...

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