BRIAN HALL
Thursday, April 24 at 7:30 p.m.

Out from his Ithaca home and making this welcome Elliott Bay return is Brian Hall. The author of such novels as I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company and The Saskiad, he is here with a much-anticipated new novel, The Fall of Frost (Viking). "This defiantly nonlinear fictionalization of the life of poet Robert Frost (1874 - 1963) alternates between Frost's late-life visit to Communist Russia, where he met with Khruschev, and dozens of vignettes and scenes from the rest of his long life ... the book's real weight comes from the tragedy of Frost's children's deaths ... Hall gets deep into Frost's head, an approach that brings a startling immediacy to a complex figure many know only as the author of classics like The Road Not Taken." - Publishers Weekly.

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