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Travel Writing by Peter Ferry
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Peter Ferry's debut is funny, suspenseful, smart and poignant
A Review by Donna Seaman

Will the real Peter Ferry please stand up? Peter Ferry No. 1 lives in Evanston. He has been a textbook author, a travel writer, and a creative-writing teacher at Lake Forest High School. He has now written his first novel, Travel Writing, with a protagonist named Peter Ferry, a former textbook author who teaches creative writing at Lake Forest High School, and does a little travel writing on the side.

Are you rolling your eyes? Are you thinking, "No, not the dreaded author-as-character routine! Not metafiction. Fiction about fiction is so pretentious and annoying."

Well, not so fast, Dear Reader. On some level, all the novels we cherish are about storytelling. How can it be otherwise? We tell ourselves the story of our lives day in and day out. We use narrative to order random experiences and memories, and interpret emotions in terms of plot and character, foreshadowing and flashbacks. Stories make sense of life and forge connections.

But aside from all that, Travel Writing...
 
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