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Book Tour: Colum McCann “Apeirogon”
March 12, 2020 @ 7:00 pm–9:00 pm
$30
In a pre-festival event on March 12, 2020, for Succeed2gether’s Montclair Literary Festival, don’t miss the chance to hear Colum McCann, National Book Award–winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin, discuss his most ambitious work to date, Apeirogon, an epic novel rooted in the real-life friendship between two men united by loss. McCann will be in conversation with New York Times bestselling author Garth Risk Hallberg.
Apeirogon—named for a shape with a countably infinite number of sides—is a tour de force concerning friendship, love, loss, and belonging.
Tickets ($30) include a copy of Apeirogon. Doors open at 6.15pm. The talk will take place from 7-8pm. The VIP admission ($100) includes a post-event cocktail party with the author (8-9pm), priority entry and reserved seating. Tickets bit.ly/2YsaJar
Colum McCann is the internationally bestselling author of six novels including TransAtlantic and Let the Great World Spin, as well as three critically acclaimed story collections and the nonfiction book Letters to a Young Writer. His fiction has been published in over 40 languages.
Garth Risk Hallberg’s first novel, City on Fire, was a New York Times and international bestseller, and was named one of the best books of 2015.
This event is a fundraiser for Montclair-based non-profit Succeed2gether, which offers free after-school one-on-one tutoring and enrichment classes with the aim of closing the education opportunity gap in Essex County. Succeed2gether’s fourth annual Montclair Literary Festival will take place March 25 to 29, 2020. Visit succeed2gether.org/montclair-literary-festival/ for more details of the program, which will feature more than 100 authors.
