Hi, Churning like a third-world traveler's stomach, Incidents of Egotourism in the Temporary World is a travelogue about finding the unexpected in familiar places. A frustrated shipper of rare books at a Boston bookstore (who refers to himself as "The Egotourist") returns to his parents' suburban New Jersey home to work temporary jobs and earn enough money to take 100 buses to Cuzco, Peru. Alternating among essays, dialogues, and short spiels, Incidents of Egotourism in the Temporary World rolls with the Egotourist's restlessness as he tells of long-distance love, Black Sabbath cover bands, bands that record songs that have already been recorded with success by the band Black Sabbath flirtatious administrative assistants, minotauric secretaries, horrible secretaries - The Minotaur is a mythical horrible monster and camaraderie in copy centers, all of it heading toward a hard-earned trip south of the border.
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