Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Bill Harrison and his new book, Black August, to be at Nightbird Books 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, January 27, 2012

William Neal Harrison
CURRENT PROJECT 
BLACK AUGUST, a mystery set in Lake Como, Italy, and Austin, Texas, appears in 2012.

     He and his friends were on Lake Como again.
    
     They had been coming to the Villa Cappaletti for seven years. A few spats had occurred, but the six men remained compatible -- five of the six played golf together -- and they were all resilient, good humored, and with considerable energies as they drifted into their middle years.

     Yet they really didn't know each other.

     That summer Harry took an interest in their relationships as he hadn't done before. It was as if he had waked up from a long sleep to study them. Men, he usually supposed, thought in terms of projects -- with a few impersonal stories told to one another along the way -- while women were more often the ones who analyzed interactions and fretted over who thought what about whom. But then Harry began to think about them, the men and women alike. Among other revelations, he found that he didn't completely know his own wife.

     All of this because of the August murders.

     Each August for years and years, he learned during this visit, some child went missing around the lake. Sometimes the body was quickly discovered, sometimes not. They were little girls around eight or nine years old.

     This was the summer Harry began to suspect that one of his own group might be responsible.

    • When
      Friday
    • Time
      6:00pm until 9:00pm
  • Description
    On the occasion of the publication of his latest book, BLACK AUGUST there will be an old fashioned LITERARY DISCUSSION with William Harrison at NIGHTBIRD BOOKS. Bill (who doesn't do readings) will talk about what kinds of books he reads and why and you'll be asked to do t...he same. (Bill intends to limit his remarks to nine sentences and suggests that's probably enough for anybody.)

    Coffee is free and other concoctions and beer are available. So is BLACK AUGUST, a classical mystery set at Lake Como in Italy and Lake Travis in Texas.
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