Description:
Join for a reading, Q & A and book signing with Karen Dukess, author of The Last Book Party. This event is co-produced by our friends at the Wellfleet Marketplace.
*A July 2019 Indie Next List Great Read*
*One of Parade's Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2019*
*An O Magazine Best Beach Read of 2019*
*A New York Post Best Beach Read of 2019*
Free admission!
Book synopsis:
In the summer of 1987, 25-year-old Eve Rosen is an aspiring writer languishing in a low-level assistant job, unable to shake the shadow of growing up with her brilliant brother, Danny. With her professional ambitions floundering, Eve jumps at the chance to attend an early summer gathering at the Cape Cod home of famed New Yorker writer Henry Grey and his poet wife, Tillie. Dazzled by the guests and her burgeoning crush on the hosts artistic son, Eve lands a new job as Henry Greys research assistant and an invitation to Henry and Tillies exclusive end-of-summer Book Party where attendees dress as literary characters. But by the night of the party, Eve discovers uncomfortable truths about her summer entanglements and understands that the literary world she so desperately wanted to be a part of is not at all what it seems.
A page-turning, coming-of-age story written with a lyrical sense of place and a profound appreciation for the sustaining power of books, THE LAST BOOK PARTY shows what happens when youth and experience collide and what it takes to find your own voice.
"Karen Dukess plants a bright flag on the dunes with her debut....Dukess delivers a spare, bittersweet page-turner that culminates in the Greys' much-anticipated end-of-summer party....Dukess's unmistakable love of words, stories and 'book people' is what keeps you bobbing briskly along with the waves." The New York Times Book Review, Beach Reads Roundup
What the critics say:
"This coming-of-age novels offers up a healthy dose of late '80s nostalgia, and it's a breezy read for book enthusiasts." O Magazine
"A book that will make you nostalgic about both 1980s NYC and book publishing." The New York Post
". . . .Ideal for a trip to the beach or a weekend getaway. . . .the lovingly created mood, particularly in Truro and its surroundings, makes it easy to keep turning the pages." AM New York
"[The Last Book Party] is sure to be my number one recommendation of the summer!. . . .This book is a bibliophiles heaven, and Im sure there could be no better summer read!" Summersays.com
|
