Get yourself a tasty stout and grab a listen to one of the Fall's great novels! We'll see you there!
Wednesday November 8th, 8pm
129 Lexington Ave.
(btwn 28th & 29th Sts.)
New York, NY 10016
212-725-3871
GERARD DONOVAN
Julius Winsome: A Novel
Living alone with his dog in the remote cabin in the woods, Julius Winsome is not unlike the barren winter lands that he inhabits: remote, vacant, inscrutable. But when his dog Hobbes is killed by hunters, their carelessness-- or is it cruelty?-- sets Julius's precarious mindset on end.
He is at once more alone than he has ever been; he was at first with his father, until he died; then with Claire, until she disappeared with another man into a more normal life in town; and then with Hobbes, who eased the sorrow of Claire's departure. Now Hobbes is gone.
Julius is left with what his father left behind: the cabin that he was raised in; a lifetime of books, lining every wall of his home, which have been Julius's lifelong friends and confidantes; and his great-grandfather's rifle from World War I, which Julius had been trained to shoot with uncanny skill and with the utmost reluctance. But with the death of his dog, Julius's reluctance has reached its end. More and more, simply and furtively, it is revenge that is creeping into his mind.
Fresh snow is on the ground as the hunters lumber into his sights. They're well within the old gun's range. They pause, and they‘ re locked into the crosshairs. Julius' s finger traces the trigger. Will he pull it? And what will that accomplish? What if he simply has nothing left to lose?
Gerard Donovan is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Schopenhauer's Telescope which was longlisted for the Booker Prize. An award-winning poet, he teaches English at Suffolk Community College. Born in Ireland, he moved to America and lives in a former railway station cottage in Calverton, New York.
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