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SUMMARY:Peter Wolf reads from his debut My New Orleans\, Gone Away
DESCRIPTION:“A heartfelt\, intimate\, and painfully honest account of the coming of age of one shy boy and of the exotic city he left behind\, but will never forget. A story of the courage of breaking away and the “you are there” descriptions of places and people that make the reader part of this narrative of struggle and triumph.”\n– Barbara Goldsmith\, author of the bestselling Little Gloria\, Happy at Last \n“My New Orleans\, Gone Away is the triumph of a memoirist with the eye of an architect and the heart of a poet. With admiration\, and occasionally\, awe\, I shared the development of his feelings and taste. This may very well be a modest classic of that enchanted city’s art\, culture\, lifestyle and vanishing monuments.”\n– Sidney Offit\, Memoir of the Bookie’s Son
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SUMMARY:David Cleveland reads from his new novel Love's Attraction
DESCRIPTION:From literary Concord to the backwater canals of Venice\, Love’s Attraction takes readers on a tantalizing and thought-provoking journey as Michael Collins\, a Washington political fixer facing an impending bribery scandal\, is suddenly confronted with a past he never knew and a legacy of heartbreak and deception from which he failed to escape. \nMichael Collins is returning to Lowell\, the derelict mill city of his childhood\, and the funeral of his estranged brother. Driving route 128\, he finds himself compelled to stop in nearby Concord and at Emerson Academy\, where his precocious youth as a talented pianist and dreams of a rowing scholarship to Harvard ended in devastating scandal. In his senior year\, he—the “Lowell-boy”—fell deeply in love with the winsome Sandra Palmer\, a blueblood Yankee from an illustrious Concord family\, who inexplicably betrayed him—a bitter expulsion that led him down a path he finds himself regretting each day. As Michael revisits scenes of their love affair twenty years later\, Sandra’s forthright integrity—the passionate and sensitive artist he remembers—shines forth and their wrenching breakup makes less and less sense. \nLeaving the Lowell cemetery on the following day\, Michael is almost run down by a red pickup truck\, perhaps a warning to keep his mouth shut in an upcoming grand jury investigation. Michael decides to disappear by disguising himself as a Thoreau scholar\, hiding out in plain sight at the historic Concord Inn. From this oddly liberating vantage point—the life he never had—he discovers the shocking news of Sandra Palmer’s recent suicide at Harvard. Made even more troubling when he learns that Sandra had a twin sister\, “helter-skelter” Angela Palmer\, seventies radical and eighties porn star and internet entrepreneur\, who seemingly disappeared around the same time as her sister’s senseless suicide. \nWith the FBI closing in\, Michael’s investigation into Sandra Palmer’s untimely death transforms into an odyssey of discovery about her family’s glittering if troubled past: A search for love and redemption that will finally draw him back to his own family roots in Venice. And to the Venice of 1914 as limned in the diary of Sandra’s grandfather\, the once famous painter\, friend to Singer Sargent and Whistler\, Joseph Palmer … where yet another tale of deceit and obsession unfolds about the artist’s pianist wife and model—Sandra Palmer’s namesake\, who befriended a poor Venetian stonecutter in the months before World War One. The tragedy of this talented woman’s death—she played Boston’s Symphony Hall at sixteen—created the world that the young Michael and Sandra unwittingly inherited. \nLove’s Attraction is a mysterious\, romantic novel that explores universal themes of identity: how memory (or its lack)\, talent and intemperate desires—embodied in art as well as in our genes—are passed down through families to influence our hidden selves. The novel speaks to the role of metamorphosis in our lives and how the transforming elixir of love’s attraction makes us most fully human.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/david-cleveland-reads-from-his-new-novel-loves-attraction/
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SUMMARY:Valerie Sayers reads from her new novel The Powers
DESCRIPTION:1941 is a year of drama and spectacle for Americans. Joe DiMaggio’s record-breaking hitting streak enlivens the summer\, and winter begins with the shock and horror of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The news from Eu­rope is bleak\, especially for the Jewish population. Joltin’ Joe\, possessing a sweet swing and range in center\, also has another gift: he can see the future. And he sees dark times ahead. In her inventive novel The Powers\, Valerie Sayers\, in both realistic and fantastic chapters\, transports the reader to an age filled with giants: Dorothy Day and Walker Ev­ans appear beside DiMaggio. The problems they face\, from Catholic antisemitism to the challenge of pacifism in the face of overwhelming evil\, play out in very public media\, among them the photography of Evans and the baseball of DiMaggio. At once magical and familiar\, The Powers is a story of witness and moral responsibility that will\, like Joe DiMaggio\, find some unlikely fans. \n“She’s smart and irreverent\, but she’s also kind and compas­sionate; she gives us imperfect people and makes us like and care about them\, an essential task for any novelist but one accomplished by surprisingly few.” —Jonathan Yardley\, Washington Post
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/valerie-sayers-reads-from-her-new-novel-the-powers/
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SUMMARY:David Gilbert reads from his latest novel "& Sons"
DESCRIPTION:“& Sons is that novel you’ve been waiting for without knowing you were waiting.”—Jess Walter \n“David Gilbert is smart\, funny\, and empathetic\, but most important\, possessed of a true literary sensibility that is seasoned\, not seasonal.”—Fran Lebowitz \n“The writing is gorgeous—not only the prose but the power of Gilbert’s observations.”- —John Irving \nA literary masterwork for readers of The Art of Fielding\, The Emperor’s Children\, and Wonder Boys—the panoramic\, deeply affecting story of two interconnected families\, an iconic novelist\, and the heartbreaking truths that fiction can hide.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/david-gilbert-reads-from-his-latest-novel-sons/
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SUMMARY:Ben Downing reads from his debut Queen Bee of Tuscany
DESCRIPTION:Ben Downing’s Queen Bee of Tuscany brings an extraordinary Victorian back to life. Born into a distinguished intellectual family and raised among luminaries such as Dickens and Thackeray\, Janet Ross married at eighteen and went to live in Egypt. There\, for the next six years\, she wrote for the London Times\, hobnobbed with the developer of the Suez Canal\, and humiliated pashas in horse races. In 1867 she moved to Florence\, Italy where she spent the remaining sixty years of her life writing a series of books and hosting a colorful miscellany of friends and neighbors\, from Mark Twain to Bernard Berenson\, at Poggio Gherardo\, her house in the hills above the city. Eventually she became the acknowledged doyenne of the Anglo-Florentine colony\, as it was known. Yet she was also immersed in the rural life of Tuscany: An avid agriculturalist\, she closely supervised the farms on her estate and the sharecroppers who worked them\, often pitching in on grape and olive harvests.\nSpirited\, erudite\, and supremely well-connected\, Ross was one of the most dynamic women of her day. Her life offers a fascinating window on fascinating times\, from the Risorgimento to the rise of fascism.
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