Malaprop's is thrilled to announce two ticketed events this
June: Jeannette Walls for a discussion and signing of The Silver Star on June 6
and Elizabeth Gilbert for a discussion and signing of The Signature of All
Things on June 27.
JEANNETTE WALLS & THE SILVER STAR:
Jeannette Walls has written a deeply moving novel about
triumph over adversity and about people who find a way to love each other and
the world, despite its flaws and injustices.
Walls graduated from Barnard College and was a journalist
in New York.
Her memoir, The Glass Castle, has been a New York Times
bestseller for more than six years. She is the author of a novel, Half Broke
Horses, named one of the ten best books of 2009 by the editors of The New York
Times Book Review. She lives in rural Virginia with her husband, the writer
John Taylor.
Walls's visit takes place on June 6 at 7pm at Malaprop's
Bookstore/Cafe. This is a ticketed event. You are encouraged to purchase
tickets ahead of time, as this event is expected to sell out. TICKETS are $10 and come with a coupon for $5 off of The
Silver Star.
ELIZABETH GILBERT & THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS:
The Signature of All Things is a beguiling novel of
desire and discovery spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries. Gilbert triumphantly returns to fiction with this novel,
which is written in the bold, questing spirit of that singular time.
Brilliantly researched and lovingly crafted, The
Signature of All Things carries the reader breathlessly across the globe, from
London and Peru to Tahiti and Amsterdam. It is a work of extraordinary faith
and of deep scientific reflection. Perhaps above all, it is the story of an
irrepressible woman, determined to satisfy her most powerful urges toward both
love and knowledge. A novel immersed in all the great questions of the
nineteenth century, The Signature of All Things is also very much a novel for
our times.
Elizabeth Gilbert is the acclaimed author of five books
of fiction and nonfiction. Her 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, was a #1 New York
Times bestseller; it has been published in more than thirty languages and has
sold more than 10 million copies worldwide, and in 2010 was made into a major
motion picture starring Julia Roberts. Gilbert's first two books, the short
story collection Pilgrims, and the novel Stern Men were New York Times Notable
Books, and her most recent work, Committed - a memoir of marriage - was a # 1
New York Times bestseller. In 2008, Time
magazine named Gilbert one of the most influential people in the world.
Gilbert's visit takes place on June 27 at 7pm at Lipinsky
Auditorium, One University Heights, on the UNCA Campus. This event is presented
in partnership with the Great Smokies Writing Program. This is a ticketed
event. You are encouraged to purchase tickets ahead of time, as this event is expected to sell out. TICKETS are $20 and come with a paperback copy of The
Signature of All Things.
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