- 7:30 PM
- November 2, 2011
- Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts
- Parry Sound
- Cost: $12
Location information
Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts
2 Bay Street
Parry Sound P2A 1S3
Join us for readings by Patrick deWitt, Will Ferguson, Helen Humphreys and Madeleine Thien, followed by a book signing. To purchase tickets, please click HERE.
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Patrick deWitt presents The Sisters Brothers, a violent, lustful odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier capturing the humour, melancholy and grit of the Old West and two brothers bound by blood, violence and love.
In Canadian Pie, Will Ferguson shares stories from his travels to Yukon in search of gold, gives lessons of a mini-bar ninja and discusses his misadventures working on the Vancouver Olympics Closing Ceremonies.
Helen Humphreys presents her latest novel, The Reinvention of Love, the fascinating story of a doomed love affair between Victor Hugo’s wife and his friend, the writer Charles Sainte-Beuve.
Set in both Montreal and Cambodia, Madeleine Thien’s latest, Dogs at the Perimeter, is a beautifully realized and deeply affecting novel about the multiple lives we carry within ourselves.
Participants
Will Ferguson
Published in 33 countries and 26 languages, Will Ferguson’s (Canada) debut novel, Happiness, won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour and the Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction. He also co-wrote the humour book How to Be a Canadian, [...]
Helen Humphreys
Helen Humphreys (Canada) is the author of four books of poetry, five novels, and one work of creative non-fiction. She was born in Kingston-on-Thames, England, and now lives in Kingston, Ontario. Her accolades include the City of Toronto Book Award, [...]
Madeleine Thien
Madeleine Thien (Canada) is the author of two previous books of fiction, a collection of stories, and Certainty, a novel. Her fiction and essays have appeared in numerous publications and her work has been translated into more than 16 languages. In 2010, she received [...]
Patrick deWitt
Patrick deWitt (Canada) is the author of two novels, Ablutions and The Sisters Brothers. He grew up in Vancouver and currently lives in Oregon with this wife and son. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and longlisted for the Scotiabank [...]