Book Show (WAMC)
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The Book Show #1235 - Anne Rice
Anne Rice is back. From the creator of The Vampire Chronicles, Lives of the Mayfair Witches, and the angels of The Songs of the Seraphim - she returns to gothic motifs - an old dark house, a mysterious death, the promise of family secrets, and the supernatural monster as hero. It is the making of a werewolf, re-imagined and reinvented. Her new novel is The Wolf Gift.
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The Book Show #1234 - Naomi Benaron
Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron is a coming-of-age tale set on the cusp of the Rwandan civil war of the 1990s. The book follows Jean Patrick Nkuba from the day he knows running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life.
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The Book Show #1233 - Howard Frank Mosher
Several months before novelist Howard Frank Mosher turned sixty-five, he learned that he had prostate cancer. Following forty-six intensive radiation treatments, Mosher set out alone in his twenty-year-old Chevy Celebrity on a road trip and book tour across twenty-first-century America.
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The Book Show #1232 - Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult is the author of 19 novels including Sing You Home, My Sister's Keeper, Nineteen Minutes, Change of Heart and Handle with Care. She has won wide praise for her compelling works, which combine huge readability with thought-provoking reflections on the human condition. The wrenching decision of whether or not to terminate the life of a loved one is at the heart of Picoult's latest novel Lone Wolf.
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The Book Show #1231 - Adam Johnson
To write his first novel, Adam Johnson, immersed himself for years in information about the secretive totalitarian state of North Korea and visited the capital, fascinated and saddened by its brutal absurdities. Adam Johnson is the author The Orphan Master's Son, a novel set in North Korea that brings to life its prison camps, orphanages, economic misery, routine corruption, and palaces of the bureaucratic elite.
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The Book Show #1230 - Alan Lightman
Alan Lightman, theoretical physicist, bestselling author, and leading explorer of the intersection between the sciences and the humanities, is renowned for accessible works of fiction and nonfiction that explain the "grand ideas" of physics. His most recent book is Mr. g: A Novel About the Creation, which Publishers Weekly called, "a touching, imaginative rendition of God's creation of the Universe."
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The Book Show #1229 - Alex Gilvarry and Suzzy Roche
On this week's episode of The Book Show we are going to focus on two very talented authors who are making their debut. They have penned two very different books - but what they have in common is that they add their names to a list of fresh, new fiction writers arriving on the scene. We will welcome Suzzy Roche of The Roches who has just written a novel entitled Wayward Saints, and we'll also discover Alex Gilvarry, his first novel is From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant.
