About whom Jay Parini knew precisely nothing. He agreed-and that "writer" turned out to be the blind and aged and eccentric master of literary compression and metaphysics, Jorge Luis Borges.
One day his friend and mentor, Alastair Reid, asked Jay if he could play host for a "visiting Latin American writer" while he attended to business in London. 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.
In this poignant and comic literary coming-of-age memoir-an apprentice writer has an entirely unexpected encounter with literary genius Jorge Luis Borges that will profoundly alter his life and work.
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