An apprentice writer has an entirely unexpected encounter with literary genius Jorge Luis Borges that will profoundly alter his life and work.
A poignant and comic literary coming-of-age memoir.
This is a jewel of a book.
--Ian McEwan In 1971 Jay Parini was an aspiring poet and graduate student of literature at University of St Andrews in Scotland; he was also in flight from being drafted into service in the Vietnam War.
One day his friend and mentor, A.
Doubleday Books Borges and me: an encounter, hardcover/jay parini
