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Matthew Weiner
presents
Heather, the Totality
in conversation with BRET ANTHONY JOHNSTON
Tickets on sale now (book included)
This event includes a book signing
DateNov
10
Friday
November 10, 2017 6:00 PM ET (Doors at 5:30) |
LocationBrattle Theatre
40 Brattle St., Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Tickets
$26.25 (online only, book included)
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Harvard Book Store welcomes Emmy Award–winning writer, director, and producer MATTHEW WEINER—creator of Mad Men, one of television's most honored series—for a discussion of his debut novel, Heather, the Totality. He will be joined in conversation by Bret Anthony Johnston, author of the bestselling novel Remember Me Like This.
About Heather, the Totality
A collision course between a privileged family and a dangerous young man, Heather, The Totality is a chilling debut novel by the creator of Mad Men, Matthew Weiner.
Praise
"Heather, The Totality is a tour de force of control, tone and razor-slash insight. In its clear-eyed anatomist's gaze and its remarkable combination of empathy and pitilessness, I hear echoes of Flaubert and Richard Yates, with a deeply twisted twist of Muriel Spark at her darkest. I could not put it down." ―Michael Chabon, author of Moonglow
"Heather, The Totality gripped me at once and had me spellbound. It was partly the absolute certainty of the world he was describing, the sense that beyond these brilliantly chosen details there was a wealth of similarly truthful social and psychological perception unstated. And partly the slightly fastidious form, the sound of a voice a hair's breadth away from affectation, but so firmly where it was that there was no question of turning away and not hearing what was going to come next. Then there was the ice-cold mercilessness, of a kind that reminded me (oddly, I suppose, but there it was) of Evelyn Waugh." ―Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials
"I cringed and shuddered my way through this short, daring novel to its terrible inevitable end. Each neat, measured paragraph carpaccios its characters to get to the book's heart—one of Boschian self-cannibalizing isolation. A stunning novel. Heather, The Totality blew me away." ―Nick Cave
"Short and rapier-sharp, Matthew Weiner's Heather, The Totality compels and unnerves in equal measure. Like the great Patricia Highsmith, Weiner renders the disturbing not just plausible but exquisitely, agonizingly inevitable. A tour de force." ―Claire Messud, author of The Burning Girl
Walking from the Harvard Square T station: 10 minutes
As you exit the station, cross Mass. Ave. and proceed along Brattle St. Follow Brattle St. as it curves to the right in Brattle Square (follow the sidewalk on the right side of the street). The Brattle will be on the left-hand side of the street. The building is shared with Algiers Cafe and Alden & Harlow Restaurant, and the theatre entrance is on the left side of the building—look for the sidewalk poster case and marquee.
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This evening's book signing is limited to Matthew Weiner's book, Heather, the Totality—up to three books per person. No memorabilia.
Featured event books will be for sale at the event for 20% off. Thank you for supporting this author series with your purchases.
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