Want to see bestselling author Wally Lamb at [words] Bookstore in Maplewood on December 6? Although purchase is not required in order to attend the event, book purchase is recommended for priority seating. Books can be purchased in-store at [words] Bookstore, by phone (973-763-9500) or through the website www.wordsbookstore.com
Local independent bookseller [words] Bookstore is delighted to announce that New York Times best selling novelist Wally Lamb will be returning to Maplewood to discuss and sign his latest novel I’ll Take You There on Tuesday, December 6 at 7:30 p.m.
The event will be held at the bookstore, located in the heart of downtown Maplewood at 179 Maplewood Avenue.
Wally Lamb is the author of four New York Times best-selling novels: Wishin’ and Hopin’, The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much is True, and She’s Come Undone and was twice selected for Oprah’s Book Club. A sought-after keynote speaker, he has spoken at universities and colleges, libraries, arts and lecture venues, and literary festivals across the country. His novels have been translated into 18 languages.
I’ll Take You There centers on Felix, a film scholar who runs a Monday night movie club in what was once a vaudeville theater. One evening, while setting up a film in the projectionist booth, he’s confronted by the ghost of Lois Weber, a trailblazing motion picture director from Hollywood’s silent film era. Lois invites Felix to revisit—and in some cases relive—scenes from his past as they are projected onto the cinema’s big screen.
Wally Lamb has said of his fiction, “Although my characters’ lives don’t much resemble my own, what we share is that we are imperfect people seeking to become better people. I write fiction so that I can move beyond the boundaries and limitations of my own experiences and better understand the lives of others. That’s also why I teach. As challenging as it sometimes is to balance the two vocations, writing and teaching are, for me, intertwined.”
Honors for Wally Lamb include a National Endowment for the Arts grant, the Connecticut Center for the Book’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Connecticut Bar Association’s Distinguished Public Service Award. In addition, he was the 1999 recipient of the New England Book Award for fiction.
