Questions of Travel Condition:Good to learn and create new

to learn and create new things

Theirs was a voyage of self-discovery

Carver: Commonplace but precise language -- Willa Cather: Paul's case

but Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction book may be even scarier

Questions of Travel Condition:Good to learn and create newLaura Fraser grows up in Sydney, motherless, with a cold, professional father and an artistic bent. Ravi Mendis lives on the other side of the globe exploring the seductive new world of the Internet, his father dead, his mother struggling to get by. Their stories alternate throughout Michelle de Kretser's ravishing novel, culminating in unlikely fates for them both, destinies influenced by travel voluntary in her case, enforced in his. With money from