Peter Ferry's carefully wrought first novel...comes alive in the classroom and on the road. What draws us into "Travel Writing" is the author's pure love of teaching and his thirst for travel.

One of those fabulously intricate novels in which you never quite know what is true and what is not--a book that becomes an exercise and exploration of the ubiquitous existence of storytelling in our lives. In other words, a perfect first novel.

A darn good yarn, capable of taking you to that place where all you want to do is turn the next page...to see what happens next.

In the cleverly constructed novel, Ferry toys with some interesting ideas, mainly the line that exists between fact and fiction.

On the strength of his new fiction...his next signing ought to be for a multi-book deal...Travel Writing is a memoir, a travelogue, and a detective story. It's great storytelling delights.

"[T]his is a soulful and well-written page-turner."

"[A] winning first novel...Ferry's prose is so entrancing, his mild-mannered yet covertly audacious hero is so compelling, there is nothing intrusive or pretentious about this metafiction setup...A mordently funny and diabolically smart novel of happenstance and responsibility."

"An ingenious novel: part mystery, part love story, partly a commentary on the art of writing fiction itself. A post-modern Rear Window with some snappy travel writing thrown in. A splendid debut by a novelist who has clearly spent a lot of time thinking about novels."

"The book is totally captivating and page-turning on one level, beautifully written and in touch with the good living of life (in a Hemingway sort of way) on another level, and all the while it raises all kinds of fascinating questions about fiction and fact, the writing process and teaching of literature. That it does all this and manages to be always honest and full of soul is truly remarkable."

"Travel Writing is an absolute pleasure to read. It is ensnaring, funny, suspenseful, smart and poignant.... Peter Ferry fits stories within stories like mirrors reflecting mirrors to expose our assumptions about fact and the imagination. When his protagonist declares, 'I am a teacher and a storyteller in that order,' he offers a clue to the mission underliying this immensely entertaining, keenly conceived and brilliantly realized puzzle of a novel. Ferry is offering us a covert refresher course in the revelatory power of story, the responsibility of writers and the unending hunger for truth."

"The book is totally captivating and page-turning on one level, completely soulful and honest on another level, beautifully written and in touch with the good living of life (in a Hemingway sort of way) on another level still, and all the while it raises all kinds of fascinating questions about fiction and fact and the writing process (without ever being too clever or coy)."—Dave Eggers, author of What Is the What