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New Relax & Read Books
December 5, 2006
Local authors light up our shelves with humor, tragedy and all-out great writing.
Fiction
Firmin: Adventures Of A Metropolitan Lowlife
by Sam Savage (Madison)
This is the remarkable tale of Firmin, a rat born & raised in a Boston bookstore. His family turns him out when he learns to read by digesting his nest of books which includes everything from Joyce to compendiums of dirty jokes. He develops feelings for the bookshop's owner and tutored by a sign-language book, Firmin tries to communicate with him.
Helen Of Troy by Margaret George (Madison)
All the legends are here - Helen, Paris, Odysseus, Achilles & others, but what this story is able to achieve is a sense of actually experiencing their stories. Breaking away from the familiar aspects to a more personal voice, we are involved more emotionally with the war and romances that played out in this epic and gain a real sense of life in Helen's time.
Non-Fiction
Off Main Street by Michael Perry (New Auburn)
Following his well-received Population:485 (which is also on the Relax & Read shelf), Perry switches from the stories of rural Wisconsin to those he observed in his travels around the country and world. The essays are a roller-coaster of hilarity and solemnity but a thoroughly enjoyable ride.
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