--- product_id: 34146326 title: "Freight Paperback – September 9, 2011" brand: "mel bosworth" price: "€ 15.99" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 6 category: "Books" url: https://www.desertcart.pt/products/34146326-freight-paperback-september-9-2011 store_origin: PT region: Portugal --- # Freight Paperback – September 9, 2011 **Brand:** mel bosworth **Price:** € 15.99 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Freight Paperback – September 9, 2011 by mel bosworth - **How much does it cost?** € 15.99 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pt](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/34146326-freight-paperback-september-9-2011) ## Best For - mel bosworth enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted mel bosworth brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Review "...subtle and delightful...This fantastically innovative novel hints at even greater works to come." -Publishers Weekly "Freight reads like vivid snapshots of feeling, sometimes snapshots of yourself...you recognize something in them at least, maybe humanity, and are intrigued...Bosworth has a kind of silent, delicate selection in his peripatetic prose, an under-stated supplication to the innate power of words. And it's this familiar staccato rhythm of repetition and yearning, delivered casually, that makes this technique of skipping back and forth feasible, and very readable." -The Huffington Post UK"Mel Bosworth's Freight is in some ways a throwback, a sweet-souled, old-fashioned book wearing the armor (or maybe the Nehru jacket) of postmodernism." -American Book ReviewI loved those choose-your-own-adventure books when I was a kid and now I love Mel Bosworth's Freight, a formally inventive novel that lets you choose how to read it, skipping back and forth between what happened and what will happen, a kind of page-turning time travel that makes the novel swirl together in wonderful ways." -Michael Kimball, author of Dear Everybody and Us"Freight moves like a train through a familiar internal landscape where memory and thought detour and derail and yet somehow we end up transported, we end up moved. With spare and urgent prose, Mel Bosworth has written an extraordinary novel that is at once traditional and experimental in all the best ways." -Robert Lopez, author of Asunder "Honesty is Bosworth's helium. He spits it and we float and glow. When too many writers are hiding behind superficial structures and fondling words rather than emotions, Bosworth's tales slip like soft ash across our souls. Ash can be anything. It can be babies or bombs or helicopters or chinese stars. Ash is the cargo we carry. The freight. What we'll become when the water's burned away. And Bosworth knows how to enter like a single flame to tear out the bad. Evoking Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Freight is the kind of bed time story that big people need to hear. Something to remind us that before the bullshit hit, we could nearly be considered real." -Brian Allen Carr, author of Short Bus and Vampire Conditions Read more About the Author Mel Bosworth is the author of the novel Freight, the poetry chapbook Every Laundromat in the World, and co-author with Ryan Ridge of the forthcoming collection Second Acts. His work has appeared in Hayden's Ferry Review, Tin House, Per Contra, New World Writing, Santa Monica Review, Melville House, American Book Review, and elsewhere. A former series editor for the Wigleaf Top 50, he currently serves as an associate editor for The Best Small Fictions 2017 and is the creator & curator of the Small Press Book Review. Mel lives in Western Massachusetts. Read more ## Images ![Freight Paperback – September 9, 2011 - Image 1](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51xjeAjbJuL.jpg) ![Freight Paperback – September 9, 2011 - Image 2](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51KKmSigWTL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Strange and Weird life experiences with great commentary. *by B***E on October 20, 2017* Interesting life experiences. The story jumps around and links to other parts of the book. I bought this for my Kindle and enjoyed his point of view. This is a weird story, but it makes sense to me perfectly. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ What if Brautigan Had Written a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Book? *by H***H on November 20, 2015* Bosworth's FREIGHT is the kind of book we might've seen from Brautigan had he written a choose-your-own-adventure book and, of course, stayed sober. It's got all the inventiveness and charm of a Brautigan, but the center of it never comes apart. It's an insightful rumination on the things we carry, and how those things impact our lives. Mistakes, regrets, fears, sorrows -- we carry them all, just as we carry our victories and joys. Bosworth's unnamed narrator gives us an inner landscape full of empathy and Zen-like zoans of love and human epiphany. After reading it, you'll want to be one of the things Bosworth carries...because you will 'put it down' and it will become part of you. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A tender, passionate novel *by G***K on March 4, 2013* Mel Bosworth's debut novel Freight is a little difficult to explain. The narrator is in love and let's you look inside his personal moments with his lover from both the past and the present. The book is written non-chronologically, so you jump around the narrator's life. Honestly, you can start the book wherever you choose. So in a way it's a choose-your-own-adventure book for adults. There's not too much to say about this novel. It's something you have to experience. Scratch that, it's something that all of us have experienced at one point or another so it's a wonderful trip down memory lane. Also, the old-school, beaten down cover is lovely. Freight is a tender, passionate novel that will tug at your heartstrings. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.pt/products/34146326-freight-paperback-september-9-2011](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/34146326-freight-paperback-september-9-2011) --- *Product available on Desertcart Portugal* *Store origin: PT* *Last updated: 2026-04-28*