Friday, October 9, 7 p.m. @ GW Lisner Auditorium
MICHAEL CHABON
Manhood For Amateurs
(HarperCollins, $25.99)
Michael Chabon has appeared at P&P for three of his novels,
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay,
Summerland, and
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for
Kavalier and Clay, and with each visit to us his audience has grown; he is a staff and customer favorite. This October he appears for a book of essays, his first major work of non-fiction,
Manhood for Amateurs. At once an autobiography and a vision of life, the book is a personal reflection on manhood as Chabon has experienced it in the roles of husband, father, and son. We are hosting this event at The George Washington University Lisner Auditorium and tickets are required. Tickets are $7, or receive two free tickets with the purchase of the book from P&P.
In our 25 years, we have been privileged to host a great many authors who have been awarded the most prestigious literary prizes. We’ve presented events with Nobel literature laureates Orhan Pamuk, Wole Soyinka, and Toni Morrison. We’ve hosted many dozens of Pulitzer Prize winners in the fields of journalism, biography, general non-fiction, and fiction. National Book Award winners on our roster include Alice McDermott for
Charming Billy, Jonathan Franzen for
The Corrections, and Joseph Ellis for
American Sphinx. Booker Prize winners include Yann Martel for
The Life of Pi, John Banville for
The Sea, and Kiran Desai for
The Inheritance of Loss. PEN/Faulkner winners include Joyce Carol Oates for
What I Lived For and Joseph O’Neill for
Netherland.
