Borges and Me: An Encounter Small Town & Rural Fiction dollars in compensation money (a

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nature lovers

Traditionally a boys-only school

a cart of scavenged food--and each other

What is imagined

Borges and Me: An Encounter Small Town & Rural Fiction dollars in compensation money (aIn this evocative work of what the author in his afterword calls a kindof novelistic memoir, Jay Parini takes us back fifty years, when he fled the United States for Scotlandin flight from the Vietnam War and desperately in search of his adult life. There, through unlikely circumstances, he meets the famed Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges. Borgesvisiting his translator in Scotlandis in his seventies, blind and frail. When Borges hears that Parini