CHARLES FRAZIER
Friday, December 8 at 7:30 p.m.

Ten years after he captivated a packed-house reading audience here and readers everywhere with his award-winning (National Book Award, American Booksellers Award, Sue Kaufman Prize, and more) debut, Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier has triumphantly returned with a much-acclaimed and much-awaited second novel, Thirteen Moons (Random House). After doing limited travels through the South with this wonderful new book, he is making a similarly limited swing out West. This evening will be one of conversation (not reading), discussion, and booksigning. Reviews everywhere have been lavish with praise: "A bountiful literary panorama...With pristine prose that's often wry, Frazier brings a rough-and-tumble pioneer past magnificently to life, indicts America with painful bluntness for the betrayal of its native people and recounts a romance rife with sadness...Mesmerizing...The history that Frazier hauntingly unwinds...is as melodic as it is melancholy, but the sublime love story is the narrative's true heart." - Publishers Weekly. "Mr. Frazier uses his sense of time and place and his lyrical, pointillist prose to give the reader an aching appreciation of the Indians' plight in the late 19th century...Mr. Frazier recounts [protagonist] Will's melancholy adventures with plenty of narrative brio...Compelling." - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times. One night not to be missed. Free tickets (two per request) on a first-come, first-serve basis available at Elliott Bay starting November 25.

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