
Better Than Fiction
From Lonely Planet, the world’s leading travel guide publisher, Better Than Fiction 2: True Adventures from 30 Great Fiction Writers, the follow-up to 2012’s Better Than Fiction, is a second serving of true travel stories told by some of the world’s best fiction writers including Dave Eggers, Jane Smiley and Karen Joy Fowler.
Varied in place, plot and voice, these are stirring and evocative pieces that all share one common characteristic—they manifest a passion for the precious gift of travel, from its unexpected but inevitably enriching lessons about other peoples and places, to the truths, sometimes uncomfortable but always enlarging, it reveals about ourselves.
By turns comic, dramatic, and moving – from Francine Prose’s confrontation of the mysteries of India to DBC Pierre’s search for Hemingway’s muse in Italy – these 30 short tales reveal the joys, perils, and surprises of travel, and that truth can often be stranger (and better) than fiction.
Whether on a plane en route to your own travel adventure, or at home settling in for a vicarious experience of world adventures, embark on this literary journey around the world and explore your passion for travel now!
Also available: Better Than Fiction 1
"...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
We asked some of the world's most acclaimed fiction authors, including Isabel Allende, Peter Matthiessen, Alexander McCall Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, Tea Obreht and DBC Pierre, to describe their greatest non-fictional journeys. The 32 stories collected in Lonely Planet's Better than Fiction touch on everything from disorientation and revelation to disillusion and redemption.
However, these real-life tales all share one common characteristic: a passion for the precious gift that travel confers, from its unexpected but inevitably enriching lessons about other peoples and places, to the truths it reveals about ourselves. By turns funny, poignant and thought-provoking, you'll be transported from Azerbaijan to Vietnam, via Iceland, India, Samoa, Scotland, Antarctica, Alaska, Argentina, Nicaragua, Rome, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and beyond.
Edited by travel writer Don George.
ISBN: 9781787012660
Edition: 1st
Publication Date: November 2017
Writers:
McCall Smith, Alexander
Allende, Isabel
Amsterdam, Steven
Andersen, Kurt
Birch, Carol
Block, Stefan Merrill
Carson, Tom
Courtenay, Bryce
Cunningham, Sophie
Dapin, Mark
Davies, Peter Ho
Finch, CharlesGemmell, Nikki
George, Don
Hall, Steven
Hulme, Keri
Hyland, M J
Iyer, Pico
Joinson, Suzanne
Jones, Lloyd
Kelman, Stephen
Lewycka, Marina
Matthiessen, PeterMayes, Frances
Morris, Jan
Oates, Joyce Carol
Obreht, Tea
Parssinen, Keija
Pavone, Chris
Pierre, DBC
Whitely, Aliya
Yogerst, Joe
Zable, Arnold
288 pages| Dimensions: 128mm width × 197mm height
Next edition due: Not yet determined
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