This Wide Terraqueous World

Name: This Wide Terraqueous World
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Laird Hunt
ISBN: 9781666632729

Author: Laird Hunt

Narrator: Pete Cross

Unabridged: 2 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 03/21/2023

Categories: Nonfiction, Literary Collections, Biography & Autobiography, Memoirs

Synopsis

In this new collection of nonfiction from the celebrated author of Zorrie, Laird Hunt uses fiction as an inspiration, a tool, even an obsession, employing its methods to get to the heart of experience. The “sizzling” work of Jane Bowles colors his wanderings through Palermo while a London museum trip provokes a consideration of taxidermy’s storytelling potential and fairytales blend with echoes of W. G. Sebald, Willa Cather, and László Krasznahorkai. From intrigue at the United Nations to a broken-down car in Nebraska, from the history of denim to the dangerous games of childhood, This Wide Terraqueous World leads listeners down the winding paths of memory as Hunt examines his subjects in razor-sharp prose both eerily spare and richly evocative.

About Laird Hunt

Laird Hunt is an award-winning novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and translator from the French. A finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, he has won the Anisfield-Wolf Award for Fiction, the Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine, and Italy's Bridge prize. His reviews and essays have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, among others. He teaches at Brown University and lives in Providence.

About Pete Cross

Pete Cross is an award-winning audiobook narrator and engineer who earned his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. A multiple Earphones Awards winner and Audie finalist, he was nominated for a SOVAS award for his narration of Moby Dick and received the 2022 Audie Award for Ryan La Sala’s Be Dazzled and the 2023 Odyssey Award for Ryan La Sala’s The Honeys.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bob on August 23, 2023

Author Laird Hunt gives us a collection of thoughtful essays about his travels and experiences. These train-of-thought pieces are at times wistful, poetic and often gently humorous. My favorite essay was "God Bless Johnny Cash" which ties together Francisco Goya, vultures, COVID-19, the cycle of lif......more

Goodreads review by Doug on April 05, 2023

I have been looking for the Laird Hunt that wrote Zorrie, which I thought was tremendous. I haven't re-found him but will keep searching. These essays were a little too scattered for my taste, yet with plenty of moments of brilliance.......more

Goodreads review by Abigail on August 07, 2024

I inhaled this book. It’s differ from my normal reads and I’ve never actually read a collection of essays before but the title caught my attention so I thought I’d try it out. I can’t tell you what exactly did it for me but I found a lot of things thought provoking even if I didn’t always understand......more

Quotes

Deliberately digressive personal essays on the intersection of art, history, and happenstance. . . . [Hunt] writes with a poetic sensibility, letting the metaphorical meaning and depth of his observations arise naturally out of his prose without laboring to extract them.