Inprint Brown Reading Series: Joseph O'Neill and Marilynne Robinson

Start: Sep 21 2009 7:30 pm

End: Sep 21 2009 9:00 pm

Joseph O'Neill’s latest novel, Netherland, the first “non-business” book President Obama read after his inauguration, has been hailed by Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times as “stunning...a resonant meditation on the American Dream.” Winner of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award, Netherland “has more life inside it than ten very good novels.” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book Review) O’Neill’s other novels include This Is the Life and The Breezes, and the nonfiction New York Times Notable Book, Blood-Dark Track, a family history centered on the imprisonment of both of his grandfathers during World War II. O’Neill, born in Ireland and raised in Mozambique, South Africa, Iran, Turkey, and Holland, writes regularly for The Atlantic.

Marilynne Robinson received the 2009 Orange Prize (recognizing the best novel in English by a woman) for her third novel, Home, which Publishers Weekly calls “...an elegant variation on the parable of the prodigal son.” The novel, also a finalist for the National Book Award, is a companion piece to Gilead, which won both the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award. “Robinson’s words have a spiritual force that’s very rare in contemporary fiction,” says James Wood in The New York Times Book Review. Robinson’s other works include her debut novel, Housekeeping, “so precise, so distilled, so beautiful that one doesn’t want to miss any pleasure it might yield” (Le Anne Schreiber, The New York Times Book Review), and the nonfiction works, Mother Country and The Death of Adam.

General admission tickets: $5, on sale September 1, 2009
Free rush tickets for students & seniors 65+ available only at the door starting at 6:45pm

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