Poet Castillo opens this impressionistic memoir of growing up as an undocumented immigrant with a gripping flashback to when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided the then-teen’s family home in Marysville, Calif. Fans of both Borges and Parini will delight in this touching coming-of-age memoir. Over the days, a tender bond forms between the eccentric sage and his caretaker. Along the way he realizes that Borges, a “batty old man of letters,” is a literary jukebox. His mission: to describe the entire trip for the blind writer. Parini’s writing mentor, poet Alastair Reid, asks him to host his houseguest, Jorge Luis Borges, a one-week ramble through the Scottish Highlands ensues. There, he describes himself as the “last 22-year-old virgin in the Age of Aquarius” as he finds his voice as a writer and escapes the draft. In this astute memoir, novelist Parini writes of leaving Pennsylvania in 1971 to pursue a PhD in literature at St. These stellar books reveal the lives of myriad artists and writers, from rock stars to sommeliers and literary luminaries.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |