JOSEPH O'CONNOR
Thursday, November 8 at 7:30 p.m.

Acclaimed Irish novelist Joseph O'Connor makes this welcome return to Elliott Bay to read from Redemption Falls (Free Press), a novel set in the western U.S. in the wake of the Civil War that has already earned high praise abroad. "Redemption Falls...is told with extraordinary ingenuity, the tone a mixture of the playful and the grave, at times fast-moving, smart, and very clever, and then full of beautiful writing and heartbreaking sequences. The cadences of the competing voices in the book combine to produce a dazzling narrative." - Colm Tólibín. "A huge achievement, as deep as it is wide, this is a book like no other of these times—a panorama of violence, vigor, and tragic love set among people devastated by the American Civil War, brilliantly recounted in the multiple tones of their voices, writings, and songs, and realized with an empathy both impressive and extraordinarily moving." – Nuala O'Faolain

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