Jincy Willett-"Amy Falls Down"
Warwick's, Thursday, July 11 at 7:30pm
Jincy Willett, the acclaimed author of The Writing Class and Winner of the National Book Award, will be at Warwick's on Thursday, July 11th at 7:30pm to discuss and sign her latest novel Amy Falls Down.
The endearingly bitter writer, Amy Gallup has happily isolated herself from the world spending the last two decades teaching and reviewing—she’s done a lot of thinking . . . but very little writing. On an unassuming morning, in her slippers, Amy trips in her backyard, goes head-over-heels, and into the side of a birdbath. The hospital clears her of head injury—so Amy returns home. When a local reporter shows up for a scheduled interview—Amy is not quite herself.
The article paints Amy as a the zen-goddess of writing, publishing . . . and life. Her bizarre interview was interpreted as the rambling of a true genius. But all that really happened was: Amy fell down!
The next thing she knows, friends and fans are coming out of the woodwork. Suddenly Amy is on radio shows, keynoting a major publishing event, and guiding a local writers’ retreat. But the strangest thing of all: Amy starts to write.
Readers witness Amy confront her past and present, and choose to take down the walls she so carefully wrote up around her. Amy Falls Down is a novel both surprisingly heartwarming and a witty mirror into today's publishing world—as only Jincy Willett could write.
Location: Street: 7812 Girard Ave City: La Jolla, Province: California Postal Code: 92037 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)
The endearingly bitter writer, Amy Gallup has happily isolated herself from the world spending the last two decades teaching and reviewing—she’s done a lot of thinking . . . but very little writing. On an unassuming morning, in her slippers, Amy trips in her backyard, goes head-over-heels, and into the side of a birdbath. The hospital clears her of head injury—so Amy returns home. When a local reporter shows up for a scheduled interview—Amy is not quite herself.
The article paints Amy as a the zen-goddess of writing, publishing . . . and life. Her bizarre interview was interpreted as the rambling of a true genius. But all that really happened was: Amy fell down!
The next thing she knows, friends and fans are coming out of the woodwork. Suddenly Amy is on radio shows, keynoting a major publishing event, and guiding a local writers’ retreat. But the strangest thing of all: Amy starts to write.
Readers witness Amy confront her past and present, and choose to take down the walls she so carefully wrote up around her. Amy Falls Down is a novel both surprisingly heartwarming and a witty mirror into today's publishing world—as only Jincy Willett could write.
Location: Street: 7812 Girard Ave City: La Jolla, Province: California Postal Code: 92037 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)
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