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conversations.value: What is a description for a book titled Travel Writing about Pete, English, Lisa with the genre: Literature & Fiction, United States?
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conversations.value: Debut novelist the author builds his quietly tricky tale around an English teacher's amateur investigation into a traffic fatality. Driving home from work, narrator Pete the author pulls up beside a car being erratically driven; Pete considers taking action, but before he can, the car crashes into a lamp post, killing Lisa Kim, the young driver. The event haunts Pete, a high school English teacher and occasional travel writer, and he soon neglects his professional duties as he looks into who Lisa was and why she died. Pete is so obsessed with his quarry that he does not notice that his relationship with live-in girlfriend Lydia is failing, though he does turn up leads to Lisa's heroin connection and a sinister psychiatrist. Or perhaps not: Pete addresses much of his narrative to his English class, and it is not clear whether the reader is meant to believe that the car accident and ensuing intrigues have actually happened, or if Pete has invented them to teach his students a lesson about storytelling. The result is a novel that, for all the cleverness of its construction, is also earnest, engrossing and affecting. <I>(Aug.)</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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conversations.value: What is a description for a book titled Travel Writing about Professional with the genre: Reference, Writing, Research & Publishing Guides?
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conversations.value: Professional reporter the author teaches how to craft engaging travel articles and essays by using a travel journal and viewing experiences with a writer's eye.
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conversations.value: What is a description for a book titled Travel Writing about Travel with the genre: Reference, Writing, Research & Publishing Guides?
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conversations.value: Travel writing is a lucrative and enjoyable writer's market, and this book may be your ticket. While planning your getaway, consider getting this book to prepare your pen -- before packing your bags. You may find vacations becoming your vocation!
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conversations.value: What could be a category for this book?
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conversations.value: A category could be '2nd Edition book'