Amor Towles on the Rules of Civility, and Amy Waldman on The Submission
Saturday, Nov. 19, 2:00 p.m., Batten (Building 2, 1st Floor, Room 2106)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Amor Towles
In Amor Towles's debut novel, Rules of Civility (Viking, $26.95), set in Depression-era Manhattan, a young woman meets and fall for a handsome banker with royal blue eyes and a ready smile. This chance meeting and its startling consequences propel her into a yearlong journey through the upper echelons of New York society.
Adam Haslett
Adam Haslett's first novel, Union Atlantic (Random House, $15.00), depicts a test of wills between a retired history teacher, Charlotte, who has suddenly begun to hear her two dogs speaking to her, and an ambitious young banker who is building an ostentatious mansion on what was once Charlotte's family land. "Remarkable . . . with gorgeous prose and the punch of a first-rate thriller," says USA Today. Haslett's short story collection, You Are Not a Stranger Here, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Adam's Haslett's appearance is cancelled.
Amy Waldman
Amy Waldman's debut novel, The Submission (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26.00), posits the following: What if a Muslim architect won a blind contest to design a Ground Zero Memorial? “Frighteningly plausible and tightly wound . . .," says Publisher's Weekly. Waldman was co-chief of the South Asia bureau of The New York Times.
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Batten (Building 2, 1st Floor, Room 2106)
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