Author Description

Literary Nonfiction. Travel. It was a different time in a different world. Terry Tarnoff spent eight years during the 1970s traveling throughout Europe, Africa and Asia. It was the early days of exploring what were to become legendary spots on the traveler's trail. Whether playing the clubs of Amsterdam, skirting the Yakuza in Japan, surviving the winters of Kathmandu, or forming a band in Goa, India, Terry's adventures are alternately engrossing, hilarious and deeply moving. THE REFLECTIONIST is Tarnoff's long-awaited follow-up to THE BONE MAN OF BENARES, a highly acclaimed book and play that told the first half of the story. THE REFLECTIONIST continues the tale, adding new meaning as it looks back from the perspective of modern times upon a period that continues to fascinate people of all generations across the globe. "In the long-awaited sequel to his brilliant THE BONE MAN OF BENARES, Terry Tarnoff's memoir, THE REFLECTIONIST reminds me of Daguerre's description of photography as a mirror with a memory, with the significant twist that Tarnoff's is a circus mirror, revealing psychedelic images and picaresque stories from the fabled traveler's trail of the now mythic Sixties. Moreover, Tarnoff employs a dazzling writing technique, which is the equivalent of scrying, gazing into a reflective surface to review the past and foretell the future, that allows the reader to watch him watching himself on his pilgrim's progress through life. A tour-de-force of memoir and travel writing." --Phil Cousineau, author of The Book of Roads & The Art of Pilgrimage