New Fiction: A Reading: Margot Livesey on The Flight of Gemma Hardy, Susanna Moore on The Life of Objects and J.R. Moehringer, Sutton: A Novel
Saturday, Nov. 17, 1:00 p.m., Auditorium (Building 1, 2nd Floor, Room 1261)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Margot Livesey
The Flight of Gemma Hardy: A Novel (HarperCollins, $15.99) is Margot Livesey’s reimagining of Jane Eyre. Gemma Hardy, an orphan, must fend for herself. She’s hired as an au pair on a remote Scottish island where she and the intriguing Hugh Sinclair, a banker twice her age, fall in love. On the day of her marriage, Gemma discovers an ugly truth about her intended. She flees the island, but leaving her past behind is not as easy as she hopes. Livesey is the author of the novels The house on Fortune Street, Homework, Criminals, The Missing World, Eva Moves the Furniture, and Banishing Verona.
Susanna Moore
Susanna Moore’s novel The Life of Objects (Random House, $25.00) moves from the prelude to World War II in Germany to the terrible devastation of the war years. The only child of shopkeepers in a small Irish village, Beatrice escapes the dreariness of everyday life by reading and perfecting her skill as a lace maker. When a countess invites the girl to live in Berlin, little does Beatrice know that she and her hosts are about to become embroiled in the grim reality of the rise and fall of the Nazi regime. Moore is the author of six other novels including The Big Girls, One Last Look, and In the Cut (adapted into a film starring Mark Ruffalo and Meg Ryan).
J.R. Moehringer
How could a guy born in the slums of Brooklyn in 1901 win the girl of his dreams? By becoming America’s most successful bank robber and a hero to the little guy. Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and memoirist J.R. Moehringer presents a fictionalized version of an audacious and compelling character in Sutton: A Novel (Hyperion, $27.99). Over three decades Sutton became so good at breaking into banks, and such a master at breaking out of prisons, police called him one of the most dangerous men in New York, and the FBI put him on its first-ever Most Wanted List. And yet, when he was finally caught for good in 1952, crowds surrounded the jail and chanted his name. “. . . a mesmerizing portrait of a remarkable man. . .”—Publishers Weekly. Meohringer is a former correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing and is the author of the memoir The Tender Bar.
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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