Author Event: Nino Ricci & Marina Endicott

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Tuesday, October 20th, 2015
7:00 PM

Bolen Books in thrilled to present another fantastic double book reading event in our 40th anniversary autumn author event series. On Tuesday, October 20th, we welcome novelists Marina Endicott and Nino Ricci to our store to present their respective new novels, Endicott's Close to Hugh and Ricci's Sleep. Each of these bestselling author's will introduce their exciting new works, including a short reading, take your questions, and sign books!

This event will start at 6:00 PM, and will take place in-store. As with all of our in-store events, admission is free, but seating is limited, so get here early!

This extraordinary evening is made possible by Penguin Random House of Canada. Here's a little more about Close to Hugh and Sleep from the publisher...

"On Monday, a fall from a ladder leaves Hugh with a fractured vision of the pain—dying parents, shaky marriages, failure of every kind—suffered by those close to him. His friends are one missed ladder-rung from going under emotionally, physically, and financially. Somebody’s got to fix them all. And it probably has to be Hugh.

Meanwhile, beneath the adult orbit, bright young lives are taking form: the sons and daughters of Hugh’s friends are about to graduate from high school and already floating away from the gravitational pull of their parents. As complicated bonds form and break in texts and ticks on multiplying media, the desires, terrors, and revelations of adolescence are mirrored in the second adolescence of the adults.

With insight and mastery, Endicott creates surprising parallel worlds. Her ear for the cadences and concerns of two generations gives us both sets of friends on the cusp of reinvention. And as always in Endicott’s multi-layered fiction, below the surface tragicomedy lies something profound: a rare and rich perspective on what it means to fall and rise and fall again—and what in the end we owe to those we love."

"David Pace is a man who has it all--a successful career as an almost-famous academic, a wife blessed Sleepwith both beauty and brains, a young son and a lovely home. But David's brain has begun to misfire. It shuts off when David is meant to be awake--when he's writing, when he's lecturing, when he's driving--but otherwise denies him any rest at all. Popping a variety of pills at an increasingly alarming rate, David struggles to remain alert, but his efforts become less and less effective, leaving his family in tatters and his career on the brink. Then, almost by accident, David finds himself with a loaded gun in his hands, and all of a sudden he feels tantalizingly, gloriously awake. The sensation, fuelled by a steady mix of pharmaceuticals, launches David towards the extremes of human behaviour, and as his choices become more and more abhorrent and the risks he is willing take more and more dangerous, David's sense of what is real, who he is, and what he is capable of slips terrifyingly out of reach."