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09.22: Sarah Waters in Conversation with Lidia Yuknavitch

2014-08-18 22:38:51| Powells Books Events Calendar

It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned; the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, life is about to be transformed as an impoverished widow, Mrs. Wray, and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers. With the arrival of Lilian and Leonard, a young couple of the "clerk class," the routines of the house will be shaken up in unexpected ways. Little do the Wrays know just how profoundly their new tenants will alter the course of Frances's life. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize three times, Sarah Waters has earned a reputation as one of our greatest writers of historical fiction. A triumph of psychological acuity, historical recreation, and emotional force, The Paying Guests (Riverhead) is Waters's finest work yet. Waters will be joined in conversation by Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of Water.

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09.28: Brian Hart in Conversation with Amanda Coplin

2014-08-18 22:38:51| Powells Books Events Calendar

Set in a logging town on the lawless Pacific coast at the turn of the 20th century, Brian Hart's The Bully of Order (Harper) is a meditation on progress, love, and identity. In this spellbinding novel of fate and redemption — told with a muscular lyricism and filled with a cast of characters Shakespearean in scope — the lives of an ill-fated family are at the mercy of violent social and historical forces that tear them apart. Hart will be joined in conversation by Amanda Coplin, author of The Orchardist.

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09.15: Luke B. Goebel in Conversation with Vanessa Veselka

2014-08-18 20:39:23| Powells Books Events Calendar

In this dazzling debut about life after loss, Luke Goebel's heart-hurt, ultra-adrenalized alter ego, H. Roc, leads us on a raucous RV romp across what's left of postmodern America and beyond. Whether it's gobbling magic cacti at a native ceremony in Northern California or burning bad manuscripts in a backyard bonfire in East Texas, scene by scene, story by story, Goebel plunges us into a madly original fictional realm characterized by heartbroken psychedelic cowboys on the brink. In Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours (FC2), Goebel's ingenuity, humanity, and humor streak through every page. Goebel will be joined in conversation by Vanessa Veselka, author of Zazen.

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