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About The Book
Through the author’s travels in Europe and the United States, Try to Get Lost explores the quest for place that compels and defines us: the things we carry, how politics infuse geography, media’s depictions of an idea of home, the ancient and modern reverberations of the word “hotel,” and the ceaseless discovery generated by encounters with self and others on familiar and foreign ground. Frank posits that in fact time itself may be our ultimate, inhabited place—the “vastest real estate we know,” with a “stunningly short” lease.
Product Details
- Publisher: UNM Press (February 15, 2020)
- Length: 208 pages
- ISBN13: 9780826361387
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Raves and Reviews
These essays soar when the writer as thinker and the writer as traveler--in the sense of a person moving deliberately through the world--most wholly converge.--Richard Scott Larson, Colorado Review
A unique, entertaining, thoughtful, and thought-provoking blend of essay-formatted travelogue and observational commentaries, Try to Get Lost: Essays on Travel and Place is an extraordinary and highly recommended addition to both community and academic library collections.--Susan Bethany, Midwest Book Review
A unique, entertaining, thoughtful, and thought-provoking blend of essay-formatted travelogue and observational commentaries, Try to Get Lost: Essays on Travel and Place is an extraordinary and highly recommended addition to both community and academic library collections.--Susan Bethany, Midwest Book Review
Whether sparkling with enthusiasm or turning downright curmudgeonly, the essays of Try to Get Lost record the ups and downs of travel with wit, insight, and unfailing honesty.--Foreword Reviews
Try to Get Lost is superb travel literature. It might also be one of the best memoirs you'll read this year.--Bob Wake, Coffee Spew
Her smart, surprising, irreverent travel essays will give you wanderlust.--People Magazine
Frank's rich, imagery-driven prose lends immediacy to her observations. This is a perfect book for readers to take on their travels, even if they're only going as far as the armchair.--Publishers Weekly
Philosophical, sophisticated literary forays that are a pleasure to dwell in.--Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Wry and emotionally powerful.--Diane Peterson, Santa Rosa Press Democrat
Try to Get Lost is a bold, engaging disquisition on the perils and promises of travel: both cranky and wise, worldly and cultivated, humorous and rueful, its every sentence sparkles. All in all, it is thoroughly entertaining, a sophisticated pleasure.--Phillip Lopate, author of A Mother's Tale
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