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Sunday, January 10, 2016
Somerville Bagel Bard launches new novel Unspeakable Things at the Harvard Book Store Jan 31, 2016
From Kathleen Spivack:
Please join me for the launch of my new novel, Unspeakable Things, at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, MA
Short reading, book signing, and party for Unspeakable Things (A. Knopf 2016), on Sunday, January 31st at 2 p.m. at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, MA.
About Unspeakable Things
"A strange, haunting novel about survival and love in all its forms; about sexual awakenings and dark secrets; about European refugee intellectuals who have fled Hitler’s armies with their dreams intact and who have come to an elusive new (American) “can do, will do” world they cannot seem to find. A novel steeped in surreal storytelling and beautiful music that transports its half-broken souls—and us—to another realm of the senses. The setting: the early 1940s, New York—city of refuge, city of hope, with the specter of a red-hot Europe at war...."
For more information, please visit: http://www.harvard.com/event/kathleen_spivack1/
Here are links to some recent reviews and features:
http://www.themillions.com/2016/01/most-anticipated-the-great-2016-book-preview.html
http://www.booklistonline.com/Unspeakable-Things-Kathleen-Spivack/pid=7592747
http://www.amazon.com/review/RTP6Q155JQFU9/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1511334193&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=283155&store=books
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1448549276?book_show_action=true
"A wild, erotic novel—a daring debut—from the much-admired, award-winning poet, author of Flying Inland, A History of Yearning, and With Robert Lowell and His Circle: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop, Stanley Kunitz, and Others"
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some upcoming events.: Wednesday, February 24 Corte Madera, CA
Kathleen wishing you a Huge Congrats on this book, sounds amazing and am anxious to read it.
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