The Glimpse Traveler

"I have not seen another nonfiction book that offers such a perceptive, engaging, intimate chronicle of the early 1970s, the road-weary hippie hitchhikers, the anti-war sentiment, the dope-induced haze. Boruch... captures this very specific, significant time and place with exquisite clarity and lyric detail and description." -- Dinty Moore, author of Between Panic and Desire "Marianne takes off into the unknown with $10, carrying her begging bowl and having the artist's faith that it will be filled with story. She never questions it. She's curious, and she follows that curiosity. The universe doesn't disappoint." -- Susan Neville, author of Sailing the Inland Sea "From its first page The Glimpse Traveller launches us on a trajectory-- an On The Road-style westward-ho picaresque journey through 1968 American culture-- Berkeley, Big Sur, Esalen, communes galore, and even normality, in all its strangeness. Marrianne Boruch is a bona-fide story teller, and the episodes are unobtrusively salted with the narrator's curious, wry, deeply intelligent and lyrical meditations about love, selves, art, beauty and knowability. The Glimpse Traveller is a wise, vulnerable, perfectly configured piece of literature, and a great read as well." Tony Hoagland "The Glimpse Traveler is a wild romp into the wild romp of the 1965, trippy, establishment-hating past, with all the accoutrements: hitchhiking, hippie vans, communes, Esalen, nude sun-bathing, hot-tubbing, bong-hitting-- you name it, Marianne Boruch has got it covered. Hilarious satire, tender coming-of-age-making-of-a-poet memoir, bursting with dazzling language and marvelous characters. A stunning book!" Karen Brennan, author of Being With Rachel "Boruch is a poet, and that fact is made evident in her svelte, impressionistic prose ... The book clips along at an addictive pace and in what seems like no time at all reaches its staggering climax and then concludes with an equally stunning finale."--Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction