Eating Europe: A Meta-Nonfiction Love Story

Jon Volkmer Writing Travel Series Edited by Jeanne Moskal Information and Pricing978-1-932559-69-9 (paperback, $18.00); 978-1-932559-70-5 (hardcover, $34.00); 978-1-932559-71-2 (PDF, $9.99) © 2006 by Parlor Press. 253 pages with illustrations, notes, and bibliography Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. About This Book Eating Europe: A Meta-Nonfiction Love Story is travel writing in its most hilarious, poignant, and consequential form. It is the year 2000, and Jon has a grant to write about “the Euro-transitional era.” From Amsterdam to Alsace, the tourist life is good. He and Janet eat and drink and spar with breezy affection while Jon pays scant attention to his project. As they drive on toward southern France, it becomes clear that something has gone very wrong—both in the journey itself, and in the telling of the journey. Jon the author steps in to explain that he had stopped writing for three years. In the meantime, the traged