A Reading: Robert Goolrick on Heading Out to Wonderful, Christopher Tilghman on The Right Hand Shore and Robert Olen Butler on The Hot Country
Sunday, Nov. 18, 2:00 p.m., Auditorium (Building 1, 2nd Floor, Room 1261)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Robert Goolrick
Author of The Reliable Wife, Robert Goolrick, set his new story, Heading Out to Wonderful (Algonquin Books, $24.95) in 1948 rural Virginia, where a young man named Charlie, back from the war, returns with nothing but a suitcase full of money. Charlie’s attraction to the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest woman in town turns first to lust and then to a need to possess her, a need so basic it becomes an all-consuming passion that threatens to destroy everything in its path. “Goolrick’s tale of doomed love resonates like a folk ballad, with the language of the Blue Ridge Mountains and its people giving this novel its soul. —Publishers Weekly
Christopher Tilghman
Fifteen years after the publication of his acclaimed novel Mason’s Retreat, Christopher Tilghman returns to the Mason family and the Chesapeake Bay in The Right-Hand Shore (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27.00) . It is 1920, and Edward Mason is making a call the dying owner of the legendary Mason family estate, the Retreat. Edward believes he can charm the old lady, secure the estate and be back in Baltimore by lunchtime. Instead, over the course of a long day, he hears the stories that will forever bind him and his family to the land. Tilghman, director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Virginia, is also the author of Road of the Heart.
Robert Olen Butler
Robert Olen Butler creates a world intrigue and espionage in his crime-fiction debut, The Hot Country (Grove/Atlantic, $25.00). A swashbuckling early-twentieth-century American newspaper war correspondent travels to Mexico in 1914, during that country’s civil war. There, he falls in love. When he witnesses the attempted murder of a priest, he employs a young pickpocket to help him find out the identity of the sniper. “Should attract devotees of espionage and historical fiction.” —Library Journal. Butler is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of thirteen novels, including Hell and A Small Hotel. He is also the author of six short story collections and a book on the creative process, From Where You Dream.
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Auditorium (Building 1, 2nd Floor, Room 1261)
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