Join us for an evening with bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt as he discusses his new book, The Librarianist (House of Anansi Press) with host Chris Hall of McNally Robinson Booksellers. A book signing will follow. Co-presented by McNally Robinson Booksellers.
The launch will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream. Before arriving, please review details of how to attend physical events at the store. The venue is accessible.
From Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who has lived his life through and for literature, unaware that his own experience is a poignant and affecting narrative in itself. With his inimitable verve, skewed humor, and compassion for the outcast, deWitt has written a wide-ranging and ambitious document of the introvert’s condition. The Librarianist celebrates the extraordinary in the so-called ordinary life, and depicts beautifully the turbulence that sometimes exists beneath a surface of serenity.
Author Patrick deWitt is the author of the novels French Exit (an international bestseller and a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize), The Sisters Brothers (winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction and the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and a finalist for the Booker Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize), and the critically acclaimed Undermajordomo Minor and Ablutions. Born in British Columbia, he now resides in Portland, Oregon.
Host Chris Hall has been with McNally Robinson Booksellers for more than twenty-five years, more than ten of which as owner. When he isn’t reading or walking he loves to travel and cook. He lives in Winnipeg and is currently training his daughters to be booksellers.
Venue
McNally Robinson - Grant Park
- 1120 Grant Avenue