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In this new collection of nonfiction from the celebrated author of Zorrie Laird Hunt uses fiction as an inspiration a tool even an obsession employing its methods to get to the heart of experience The sizzling work of Jane Bowles colors his wanderings through Palermo while a London museum trip provokes a consideration of taxidermys storytelling potential and fairytales blend with echoes of W G Sebald Willa Cather and Lszl Krasznahorkai From intrigue at the United Nations to a brokendown car in Nebraska from the history of denim to the dangerous games of childhood This Wide Terraqueous World leads listeners down the winding paths of memory as Hunt examines his subjects in razorsharp prose both eerily spare and richly evocative