Striking Fear: New Novels: Justin Cronin on The Twelve, Glen Duncan on Talulla Rising and Victor LaValle on The Devil in Silver
Saturday, Nov. 17, 2:30 p.m., Auditorium (Building 1, 2nd Floor, Room 1261)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Justin Cronin
Justin Cronin’s, epic thriller The Passage spent 3 months on The New York Times bestseller list, was featured on more than a dozen “Best of the Year” lists, and had Cronin compared to Cormac McCarthy, Michael Crichton, and Stephen King. His sequel to the The Passage is The Twelve (Random House, $28.00), in which three strangers must navigate an apocalyptic world as they try to survive violence and disease. Cronin is also the author or Mary and O’Neil, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Stephen Crane Prize.
Glen Duncan
Glen Duncan’s lavish horror novel Talulla Rising (Knopf, $25.95), the sequel to The Last Werewolf, reintroduces Telulah, a werewolf mother who must save herself and her infant from a band of blood-drinking fanatics. “Duncan delivers with intelligent humanity a monster we want to track and befriend, even knowing she would happily eat us alive.”—The New York Times Book Review. Duncan, the author of eight previous novels, including I, Lucifer and A Day and A Day and a Night and a Day, was chosen by The Times Literary Supplement as one of Britain’s best young novelists.
Victor LaValle
The Devil in Silver (Spiegel & Grau, $27.00) is Victor LaValle’s literary horror novel in which Pepper, a minor-league troublemaker, finds himself an inmate at a mental institution in Queens, accused of a crime he can’t quite remember. On his first night, he’s visited by a terrifying creature with the body of an old man and the head of a bison, who nearly kills him. It’s no delusion. Pepper rallies three other inmates in a plot to fight back. “. . . will leave you wondering about its many memorable characters and lingering over questions about fear, horror, madness, suffering, friendship, and love.” —Publishers Weekly. LaValle is the author of two previous novels, The Ecstatic; the American-Book-Award-winning Big Machine; and a collection of short stories, Slapboxing with Jesus.
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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