Douglas Bauer with Jack Beatty, The Beckoning World
When:
Thursday, Nov 17, 2022 7:00p -
8:00p
Thursday, Nov 17, 2022 7:00p -
8:00p
Where:
Porter Square Books
25 White St
Cambridge, MA 02140
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Art
Event website:
https://www.portersquarebooks.com/event/douglas-bauer-jack-beatty-beckoning-world
Porter Square Books is thrilled to welcome Douglas Bauer, author of The Beckoning World, for a conversation with Jack Beatty.
The Beckoning World is set in the first quarter of the twentieth century and follows Earl Dunham. His weeks are comprised of six days mining coal, followed by Sundays playing baseball. Then one day a major-league scout happens on a game, signs Earl, and he begins a life he had no idea he could even dream.
But dreams sometimes suffer from a lovely abundance, and in Earl’s case her name is Emily Marchand. They fall quickly and deeply in love, but with that love comes heartbreaking complications.
The Beckoning World gathers a cast of characters that include Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig; a huge-hearted Pullman steward offering aphoristic wisdom; and countless others, not least of which is the 1918 Spanish flu taking vivid spectral form. At the center is a relentless love that Earl and Emily are defenseless against, allied as they are “in this business of their hearts.”
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