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Out of the Glass Box

Un memoir narrativo di viaggio completo, tratto dai diari tenuti durante un anno sulla strada attraverso Sud-est asiatico, Australia e Nuova Zelanda.

Manuscript overview

Ciò che comincia come fuga diventa gradualmente qualcosa di più duro: distanza, lavoro, routine, resistenza, pressione economica e la domanda inquieta su cosa la libertà stia davvero cambiando. Il manoscritto nasce da diari contemporanei al viaggio ed è modellato in una narrazione lunga e chiara senza inventare una vita diversa.

In breve

Status
Complete
Full manuscript available
Length
60k
Narrative non-fiction
Genre
Memoir
Travel / literary memoir
Source
Journal-led
Drawn from contemporaneous writing
Positioning
Out of the Glass Box sits closer to reflective literary memoir than conventional backpacking narrative. Its interest is not spectacle for its own sake, but what movement exposes once novelty wears off: uncertainty, resilience, labour, intimacy, routine, and the gap between freedom and direction.
Author
Phil Rodgers is a UK writer working from original notebooks, postcards, photographs, and related material from the journey itself. The manuscript keeps the immediacy of that source voice while shaping it into a coherent long-form narrative.
Submission note
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