Jill McCorkle

Mysterious Galaxy is proud to be partnering with Adventures by the Book for an exciting off-site event with author Jill McCorkle in San Diego.

Your Adventure includes a gourmet boxed lunch, beverage, a brief presentation by ElderHelp, book discussion, Q&A, author signing, and an opportunity to meet the author up close and personal.

If you choose to purchase the book in addition to attending the event, Adventures by the Book will make a matching donation to ElderHelp.

For reservations and information, please visit the Adventures by the Book website.

If you cannot attend the event, but would like a signed copy, contact the San Diego store, at (858) 268-4747.

Location: Street: ElderHelp Additional: 6150 Mission Gorge Road City: San Diego, Province: California Postal Code: 92120 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Jill McCorkle

Wednesday, May 8, 7:30 p.m.

Life After Life

Life After Life is filled with a sense of wonder at our capacity for self-discovery at any age. And the residents, staff, and neighbors of the Pine Haven retirement center (from 12-year-old Abby to 85-year-old Sadie) share some of life’s most profound discoveries and are some of the most true-to-life characters that you are ever likely to meet in fiction.

Jill McCorkle is the author of nine previous books—four story collections and five novels—five of which have been selected as New York Times Notable Books. The recipient of the New England Book Award, the John Dos Passos Prize for Excellence in Literature, and the North Carolina Prize for Literature, she teaches writing at North Carolina State University.

Location: Street: 1010 El Camino Real City: Menlo Park, Province: California Postal Code: 94025-4349 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Life after Life is a profoundly beautiful exploration of life and death through the most true-to-life characters one is likely to meet in fiction: the residents and staff of Pine Haven Retirement Center Fulton, North Carolina. Jill McCorkle has always been interested in probing the lines between fiction and reality, and between tragedy and comedy. With this novel, she charts the precarious line between life and death, the split moment when the reader is aware of both places at once.

Jill McCorkle is the author of four story collections and five novels from which five have been selected as New York Times Notable Books. The recipient of the New England Book Award, the John Dos Passos Prize for Excellence in Literature, and the North Carolina Prize for Literature, she teaches writing at North Carolina State University and lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina. (jasbro)… (more)

Life After Life (Shannon Ravenel, $24.95), Jill McCorkle’s first novel in seventeen years, is alive with the daily triumphs and challenges of the residents and staff of Pine Haven Estates, a retirement facility, which is now home to a good many of Fulton, North Carolina’s older citizens. McCorkle puts her finger on the pulse of every character’s strengths, weaknesses, and secrets. And, as she connects their lives through their present circumstances, their pasts, and, in some cases, through their deaths, she celebrates the blessings and wisdom of later life and infuses this remarkable novel with hope and laughter.

Location: Street: 265 Aragon Ave City: Coral Gables, Province: Florida Postal Code: 33134-5008 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Jill McCorkle is the author of nine previous books, five of which have been selected as New York Times Notable Books. The recipient of the New England Book Award, the John Dos Passos Prize for Excellence in Literature, and the North Carolina Prize for Literature, she teaches writing at NC State University. Set in the retirement facility of Pine Haven Estates, Jill McCorkle’s novel Life After Life explores the lives and in some cases the deaths of the Pine Haven staff and residents. She also celebrates the blessings and wisdom of later life, and infuses her remarkable novel with hope and laughter.

Location: Street: 55 Haywood St City: Asheville, Province: North Carolina Postal Code: 28801 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Mail your tax forms early, and come to a discussion of Jill McCorkle’s latest novel, Life After Life. (McCorkle will be at Malaprop’s on April 22 at 7pm for a reading and booksigning.) E-mail amarshall@mountainx.com to join this bookclub; space is limited.

Location: Street: 55 Haywood St City: Asheville, Province: North Carolina Postal Code: 28801 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Jamie Quatro is a writer of enormous talent, and her first story collection, I Want to Show You More already is collecting high critical praise. “A brilliant new voice in American fiction has arrived. Bright, sharp, startling, utterly distinctive, passionate, and secretive,” says one. And author Jill McCorkle adds, ”Jamie Quatro knows how to take a dark turn without ever tapping the brakes and then bring you back into daylight with breathtaking precision. These amazing stories explore the human boundaries between the physical world and the spiritual.” Sharp-edged and fearless, mixing white-hot yearning with daring humor, Jamie Quatro’s debut collection of stories is a beautiful and disquieting portrait of infidelity, faith, and family. We invite you to meet this new author and share the pleasures of her new book. (jasbro)… (more)

"With Life After Life, Jill McCorkle knocks it out of the park and into the cosmos. Each character holds unique surprises that unveil the intricate magic of this brilliant novel." Beth Henley, Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and screenwriter "Like Flannery O'Connor, McCorkle's genius is to give us both philosophical speculation and a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters. Great writing, poignancy, humor, wisdom—all are in abundance here. Jill McCorkle is one of the South's greatest writers; she is also one of America's." Ron Rash, author of Serena

Jill McCorkle s first novel in seventeen years is alive with the daily triumphs and challenges of the residents and staff of Pine Haven Estates, a retirement facility, which is now home to a good many of Fulton, North Carolina s older citizens. McCorkle puts her finger on the pulse of every character s strengths, weaknesses, and secrets. And, as she connects their lives through their present circumstances, their pasts, and, in some cases, through their deaths, she celebrates the blessings and wisdom of later life and infuses this remarkable novel with hope and laughter.

Jill McCorkle is the author of nine previous books—four story collections and five novels—five of which have been selected as New York Times Notable Books. The recipient of the New England Book Award, the John Dos Passos Prize for Excellence in Literature, and the North Carolina Prize for Literature, she teaches writing at North Carolina State University and lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina.

Location: Street: Porter Square Shopping Center Additional: 25 White Street City: Cambridge, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02140 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Jill McCorkle reads from Going Away Shoes.

Jill McCorkle’s world is populated by people whose foibles are so familiar that we want nothing so much as to watch them walk into—and then out of—life’s inevitable traps. In Going Away Shoes, she collects eleven new stories bristling with her characteristic combination of wit and weight. Shoes figure largely in these stories of confronting the complications of love—honeymoon shoes, mud-covered hunting boots, glass slippers—as all the characters march to a place of new awareness, and, in one way or another, transform their lives. Jill McCorkle is the author of eight previous books, five of which have been selected as New York Times Notable Books. She teaches writing at North Carolina State University. (jasbro)… (more)