Geneva, Switzerland – Tuesday, October 9 – 6:30-8:00 p.m.
The Idiot will be speaking about, and reading from, “The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean” and its sequel, “The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean,” which will be published on Valentine’s Day 2013, at:
OffTheShelf English Bookshop
15 boulevard Georges Favon
1204 Geneva, Switzerland
http://www.offtheshelf.ch
Recent comments in the Geneva press regarding the event include this remark in The Essential Edge Geneva:
Joel Stratte-McClure to speak at Geneva’s Off The Shelf Bookshop, Tuesday, 9 October, 2012. We have known Joel for years – and this is a superb and highly readable book. He is also an engaging writer. But as Diane Plater of the Associated Press points out, there must be simpler – and less strenuous – ways to get over a midlife crisis following a divorce. Walking around the Mediterranean does seem to be a bit extreme. But American journalist and author Joel Stratte-McClure doesn’t seem to be the type to take the easy way out.
Another writer, Craig Unger of Vanity Fair magazine and author of Boss Rove: Inside Inside Karl Rove’s Secret Kingdom of Power,” also notes: “From the turquoise-tinted water and zillion dollar yachts of Saint-Tropez to the intrigue of the Kasbah in Tangier, Joel Stratte-McClure takes the reader on a delightful spiritual journey around the Mediterranean that is filled with nudists and Buddhists, the obscenely chic and the exotic. The Idiot and the Odyssey is such a terrific antidote to the middle age melancholia that if Homer could do a sequel, Odysseus would probably jump ship to join Stratte-McClure’s MedTrek instead.”
The Idiot and a climbing partner on Mount Athos.
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