Thursday November 2, 2006
Rebecca Lee Book Dubut
UNCW Creative Writing professor Rebecca Lee reads from debut novel
WILMINGTON, N.C.—Rebecca Lee, a fiction writer and associate professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, will read from her novel The City Is a Rising Tide (Simon & Schuster, 2006) 8 p.m. Thurs., Nov. 2, in Dobo Hall 103 on the UNCW campus.
This event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow, along with a book signing courtesy of Pomegranate Books.
Recent praise for The City Is a Rising Tide:
Skillfully constructed...Lee’s ability to amp up the tension, comic and otherwise...astounds at every turn.
— The New York Times
Lee’s novel is beautiful and insane and unlike any other. The comedy lures you in, the scenes in Manhattan seduce you, the poetry stabs you in the heart.
—Jonathan Franzen, National Book Award–winning The Corrections
The pleasure of reading The City Is a Rising Tide comes from its crystalline prose as well as its almost poetic descriptions of life in the big city . . . New York has never seemed so beautiful, so ineffable, like a shimmering Emerald City of the East whose unspeakable loveliness almost takes your breath away.
—San Francisco Chronicle
Other upcoming events:
• Buckner lecture and reading, visiting writer George Singleton, Thurs., Oct. 26, 8 p.m., Randall Library Auditorium, UNCW Campus
For further information on UNCW’s programs and events in creative writing, please contact the Department of Creative Writing at (910) 962-7063.
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