Dennis Bock Reading and Reception, November 2
The UPEI Department of English and the Prince Edward Island Writers' Guild are very pleased to host Dennis Bock for a public reading and reception. The event will be held on Thursday, November 2, at 7:00 at the Reading Well Bookstore, 87 Water Street, Charlottetown.
Dennis will be reading from his new novel, The Communist's Daughter, published in 2006 by Harper Collins Canada. Currently residing in Guelph Ontario, where he lives with his family, Dennis Bock is one of Canada's most exciting contemporary authors. His collection Olympia, won the 1998 Canadian Authors' Association Jubilee Award, the inaugural Danuta Gleed Award for best first collection of stories by a Canadian author and the British Betty Trask Award. His first novel, The Ash Garden, was a #1 national bestseller and was shortlisted for the prestigious 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Amazon.com/Books in Canada First Novel Award.
In The Communist's Daughter, the legendary Canadian Dr. Norman Bethune comes vividly to life, amidst the chaos and destruction of the Japanese invasion of China in the 1930's. As we read Bethune's wrenching letter home to the daughter he left behind, Bock examines the competing demands of political idealism and personal responsibility. Come join the discussion of this captivating new novel and the enigmatic individual whose voice it captures.
