Peter Lasalle, Author University of Georgia Press $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8203-2998-7
LaSalle's mixed third collection of short stories finds him ruminating on the flexibility of time and paying homage (with a wink) to Jorge Luis Borges among other iconic writers. LaSalle's protagonists often occupy a hazy space that isn't...
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Peter Lasalle, Author Breakaway Books $20 (224p) ISBN 978-1-55821-505-4
Ice hockey is the unifying element that ties together the seven stories and four poems in this poignantly written but thematically thin collection from LaSalle (Strange Sunlight; The Graves of Famous Writers). Most of the stories are set in New...
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Peter LaSalle. Texas Tech Univ., $24.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-89672-743-4
LaSalle's (Tell Borges If You See Him) new novel is brief, but it feels expansive with its continued breathlessness, the whole book an uninterrupted sentence. The novel follows Mariposa, a pretty young woman who has recently emigrated from Honduras
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Peter LaSalle. Dzanc (Consortium, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-938103-20-9
LaSalle, a fiction writer (What I Found Out About Her) and professor of creative writing at the University of Texas, merges literary biography and travel writing, as well as literary criticism and autobiography, in this fresh, insightful collection...
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Peter LaSalle. Bellevue Literary (Consortium, dist.), $16.99 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-942658-18-4
LaSalle’s languorous story collection rarely engages the reader’s attention fully. Despite the book’s Borges epigraph, fans
of the Argentine master will find the imitations in “Southern Majestic Zone” and “Boys: A New African Fable” lacking. Rather
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Peter LaSalle. LSU, $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8071-7396-1
LaSalle (Sleeping Mask) delivers a wonderful collection of essays about his extensive travels, to places both literary and actual, over his career as a fiction writer and writing instructor. Though LaSalle’s prose is consistently elegant and...
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