Harper Perennial
Price: $13.95
Harper Perennial
Price: $13.95
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Women on the Verge: EMILY MAGUIRE, SARAH HALL, and HEATHER O'NEILL
Harvard Book Store is pleased to announce that on Tuesday, October 31st Emily Maguire, Sarah Hall, and Heather O’Neill, will read from their respective novels Taming the Beast, Haweswater, and Lullabies for Little Criminals.
Fourteen-year-old Sarah Clark, the heroine of Emily Maguire’s Taming the Beast, is seduced by her thirty-eight-year-old English teacher, Daniel Carr. She becomes entangled in an illegal, erotic, passionate, and dangerous affair—a vicious meeting of minds and bodies that ends badly. A modern Lolita, Taming the Beast is an and alluring tale that introduces a powerful new writer.
Sarah Hall’s new novel Haweswater is set in the village of Marsdale, cradled in a remote dale in England's lovely Lake District. The rhythm of life in the deeply religious, sheltered community has not changed for centuries. But in 1936, when Waterworks representative Jack Ligget from industrial Manchester arrives with plans to build a new reservoir, he brings the much feared threat of impending change to this bucolic hamlet. And when he begins an intense and troubled affair with Janet Lightburn—a devout local woman of rare passion and strength of spirit—it can only lead to scandal, tragedy, and remarkable, desperate acts.
Baby, the heroine of Heather O’Neill’s Lullabies for Little Criminals, is lost in the gangly, coltish moment between childhood and the strange pulls and temptations of the adult world. Her mother is dead; her father, Jules, is scarcely more than a child himself, and always on the lookout for his next score. Baby knows that “chocolate milk” is Jules's slang for heroin, and sees a lot more of that in her house than the real article. But she takes vivid delight in the scrappy bits of happiness and beauty that find their way to her, and moves through the threat of the streets as if she's been choreographed in a dance.
After the reading, join the authors, other readers, and staff from Harvard Book Store and the Boston Phoenix at a free reception at Grafton Street Pub around the corner from the bookstore. This is a great opportunity to meet other young readers and talk about what's on your reading list!
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Emily Maguire divides her time among teaching English, writing nonfiction pieces, and working on her next novel. She is the recipient of a 2003 Australian Society of Authors Mentorship, and she lives in Sydney.
Sarah Hall, the author of the Man Booker Prize finalist The Electric Michelangelo, divides her time between the north of England and North Carolina.
Heather O'Neill is a contributor to the radio program This American Life. Lullabies for Little Criminals is her first novel.
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