{"product_id":"9781628727005","title":"Haunted Traveller: An Imaginary Memoir","description":"\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHaunted Traveller\u003c\/i\u003e, his most personal and ambitious work, Barry Yourgrau takes the reader on a postmodern literary journey like no other. Here are forty-four fantastic episodes that together paint an imaginary memoir of one man’s yearning, alienated passage through life, as written by this “odd, wild, and brilliant master of absurd anxieties” (Patrick McGrath).\u003cp\u003eThink Bruce Chatwin meets Monty Python. Meets Paul Bowles meets Fellini meets Scheherazade meets \u003ci\u003eThe Twilight Zone\u003c\/i\u003e. Think the moody romance of Travel itself. \u003ci\u003eHaunted Traveller\u003c\/i\u003e packs readers along on the moonstruck roaming of a lost soul searching for a childhood memento. Wander to tropical hotel rooms to hear deathbed whispers; climb to mountain graveyards where a ghost shops for a life wife; spy on stolen kisses in snowbound palaces. Voyage to lands that exist in the dreams, poetic whimsies, and troubled confessions of a man who’s seen all too much.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMixing grand gestures of travel writing with Gothic horrors, amorous fables, adventure yarns, and lamplit fairy tales. \u003ci\u003eHaunted Traveller\u003c\/i\u003e brims with Yourgrau’s trademark surreal wit. With this book, he creates a lushly atmospheric and intimate masterpiece that distills the sublime imagination of his earlier work and pushes it to a new, richly poignant level. \u003ci\u003eHaunted Traveller\u003c\/i\u003e solidifies Yourgrau’s place as one of the most inventive and uniquely insightful writers working today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSkyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arcade Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031961682160,"sku":"9781628727005","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781628727005_p0.jpg?v=1763870224","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781628727005","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}