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We are sorry to announce that Mr. Meyer had to cancel his visit with us due to illness. Meyer's brilliant debut, set in a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation that arises in its absence. Two young men, bound to the town by family, responsibility, inertia and the beauty around them, dream of a future beyond the factories, abandoned homes and polluted river. Meyer's book evokes John Steinbeck's novels of restless lives during the Great Depression. "Meyer has a thrilling eye for failed dreams and writes uncommonly tense scenes of violence...Fans of Cormac McCarthy or Dennis Lehane will find in Meyer an author worth watching." - Publisher's Weekly |
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We do hope to see you on Thursday this week for...
WORD OF MOUTH BAY AREA MINI-TOUR presents MCs: Elizabeth Stark and Joan Gelfand How do we deal with Guilt in our lives? Do we let it overpower and cripple us? Do we merely live with it? Do we own it and make guilty pleasure a delight? In this reading we explore three very different aspects of guilt. In Jill Wolfson's Cold Hands, Warm Heart, we explore the guilt that rests in the shadows between life and death. In stories in The Mechanics of Falling, Catherine Brady asks a few uncomfortable questions about liberal guilt, and in Cynthia Gentry and Dana Fredsti's Secret Seductions, we experience the freedom of guilty pleasures. Raffle tickets given away free when you buy a book. Win book club visits and manuscript consultations from award-winning and bestselling authors. Click here to view this email in a browser |
PHILIPP MEYER will read from|
80 West Portal, San Francisco, CA
94127 | (415) 564-8080 |
