Ethan Canin

Don't miss this opportunity to hear one of Elizabeth Berg's favorite writers! Ethan will be talking abaout his latest novel, America, America. Details about this event can be found on page 11 of the BV newsletter (see sidebar at left for link to newsletter.)Advance tickets required for the gourmet box ... (more)lunch.

Author: Ethan Canin’s new novel,
America America, follows the presidential campaign of Henry Bonwiller, a
fictional Democratic senator, during the historic elections of 1972.
“We've waited a long time for a worthy successor to Robert Penn Warren's All
the King's Men,” declares The ... (more)Washington Post, “and it couldn't have
arrived at a more auspicious moment than this season of potentially epochal
political change.” John Updike, writing in The New Yorker, calls
the book “A complicated, many-layered epic of class, politics, sex, death, and
social history… masterly.” Canin is the author of three previous novels
and two collections of short stories. His fiction has appeared in The
Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, The Paris Review, Granta,
and The New Yorker, which named him one of 20 "writers for the new
millennium." He is a professor at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a
physician.
Title: America America,
$27.00 Hardcover, ISBN 9780679456803, On Sale Date: June 01, 2008. Rainy Day Books will have
Ethan Canin's
books for sale at this Author Event.
What: Ethan Canin
will talk about his new book, his life, his work, answer audience questions and
he will autograph copies of his new book purchased from Rainy Day Books,
on our website and / or at our Author Event.
When: Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 7:00 PM
Where:
Kansas City Public Library, Central
Library, Helzberg Auditorium,
14 W 10th Street, Floor 5, Kansas City, Missouri 64105, Reservations Phone: 816-701-3407
Admission: All Writers
At Work Events are FREE and Open to the Public. Please Call 816-701-3407
for Reservations. Writers At Work Series Author Events are produced in
partnership with
Chris Davis, University of Missouri -
Kansas City - English Department, the
Kansas City Public Library and
Rainy Day Books.

From Ethan Canin, bestselling author of The Palace Thief, comes a stunning novel, set in a small town during the Nixon era, about America and family, politics and tragedy, and the impact of fate on a young man's life. Corey Sifter, the son of working-class parents, becomes a yard boy on the grand estate ... (more)of the powerful Metarey family. Taken in by the family's patriarch, Corey soon finds himself in the midst of a complex tangle in which loyalty, politics, and gratitude conflict with morality and love.

From Ethan Canin, the bestselling author of The Palace Thief and Carry Me across the Water, comes America America, a stunning novel set in a small town spanning the Nixon-era through today, about a great family, a political tragedy, and the impact of fate on history.

The author reads from and signs his new novel. 202-364-1919.