The Pebble Chance - by Marius Kociejowski (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Essays and anecdotes from travel-writer, poet, and bookseller Marius Kociejowski, including pieces on encounters with Bruce Chatwin and Javier Marías.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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. --<b>Michael Dirda, <i>The Washington Post</i></b> <p/>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. <p/>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 Marías, <i>The Pebble Chance</i> is a sumptuous offering of belles lettres exploring the incandescent moments when skill and providence collide.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>PRAISE FOR MARIAS KOCIEJOWSKI</b> <p/>"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."--<b>Christopher Middleton</b> <p/>"It is a testament to the power of this superb book that I felt not despondency, but ... elation.--<b>Adam Thorpe, <i>The Times Literary Supplement</i></b> <p/>Treasures are revealed ... with a formidable erudition, and at their best they gleam with an enameled splendour.--<b>Ken Babstock, <i>The Globe and Mail</i><b> <p/>Kociejowski writes beautifully ... unusual, poetic, and thought-provoking.--<b><i>Library Journal</i><b><br><br><br><strong>PRAISE FOR MARIAS KOCIEJOWSKI</strong> <p/>"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."--<strong>Christopher Middleton</strong> <p/>"It is a testament to the power of this superb book that I felt not despondency, but ... elation.--<strong>Adam Thorpe, <em>The Times Literary Supplement</em></strong> <p/>Treasures are revealed ... with a formidable erudition, and at their best they gleam with an enameled splendour.--<strong>Ken Babstock, <em>The Globe and Mail</em><strong> <p/>Kociejowski writes beautifully ... unusual, poetic, and thought-provoking.--<strong><em>Library Journal</em><strong><br><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Marius Kociejowski, poet, essayist and travel writer, lives in London. He has published four collections of poetry, <i>Coast</i> (Greville Press), <i>Doctor Honoris Causa</i>, and <i>Music's Bride</i> (both Anvil Press). <i>So Dance the Lords of Language - poems 1975-2001</i> was published in Canada by Porcupine's Quill in 2003. Most recently, he published <i>The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool: A Syrian Journey</i> (Sutton Publishing), <i>The Pigeon Wars of Damascus</i> (Biblioasis), <i>God's Zoo</i> (Carcanet) and an anthology, <i>Syria through Writers' Eyes</i> (Eland).
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