{"product_id":"the-pebble-chance-feuilletons-and-other-prose-9781927428771","title":"The Pebble Chance: Feuilletons and Other Prose","description":"\"Kociejowski draws on all the aspects of his life in these engaging, idiosyncratic personal essays ...  that] proffer the reader equal measures of autobiography, insight and quirky charm.\" --\u003cb\u003eMichael Dirda, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the game of bocce, no matter how intensely you study the world's surface, there is always a chance an unseen pebble will knock your ball in an unexpected direction. In these essays, poet, antiquarian bookseller, and celebrated travel writer Marius Kociejowski chronicles serendipitous encounters with authors, manuscripts, and eccentrics, in which \"the curious workings of fate\" and \"art's unbidden swerve\" intervene to shift the course of fortune. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCarried by keen wit, aphoristic prose, and a rich sense of characterization, and featuring chance meetings and comic misadventures with such figures as Bruce Chatwin, Zbigniew Herbert, and Javier Mar as, \u003ci\u003eThe Pebble Chance\u003c\/i\u003e is a sumptuous offering of belles lettres exploring the incandescent moments when skill and providence collide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Biblioasis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/16\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781927428771\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.10w x 0.70d","brand":"Marius Kociejowski","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39462771753141,"sku":"9781927428771","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_36c1d010-3b6e-4e34-9bcc-bd75e8c14426.jpg?v=1615921379","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-pebble-chance-feuilletons-and-other-prose-9781927428771","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}