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VIRGINIA PYE and LAURA VAN DEN BERG

November 13, 2018 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Free

Virginia Pye (author of Shelf Life of Happiness) and Laura van den Berg (author of The Third Hotel) will be discussing their works and signing books.

In these bittersweet, compelling stories, Virginia Pye’s characters long for that most elusive of states: happiness. A young skateboarder reaches across an awesome gap to reconnect with his disapproving father; an elderly painter executes one final, violent gesture to memorialize his work; a newly married writer battles the urge to implode his happy marriage; and a confused young man falls for his best friend’s bride and finally learns to love. In each story, Pye’s characters aim to be better people as they strive for happiness—and some even reap the sweet reward of achieving it.

Shortly after Clare arrives in Havana, Cuba, to attend the annual Festival of New Latin American Cinema, she finds her husband, Richard, standing outside a museum. He’s wearing a white linen suit she’s never seen before, and he’s supposed to be dead. Grief-stricken and baffled, Clare tails Richard, a horror film scholar, through the newly tourist-filled streets of Havana, clocking his every move. As the distinction between reality and fantasy blurs, Clare finds grounding in memories of her childhood in Florida and of her marriage to Richard, revealing her role in his death and reappearance along the way. The Third Hotel is a propulsive, brilliantly shape-shifting novel from an inventive author at the height of her narrative powers.

Details

Date:
November 13, 2018
Time:
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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Website:
https://www.belmontbooks.com/event/virginia-pye-laura-van-den-berg

Organizer

Belmont Books
Phone:
(617) 932-1496
Email:
info@belmontbooks.com
Website:
http://www.belmontbooks.com

Venue

Belmont Books
79 Leonard Street
Belmont, MA 02478
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Phone:
(617) 932-1496
Website:
http://www.belmontbooks.com

Did You Know?

Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.