If you’re in the Seattle area on Thursday night, February 19, come to Third Place Books (Lake Forest Park location), and join me in conversation with author and playwright Robert Levy about his first novel The Glittering World. Edited to add: At 7:00PM! Because wouldn’t it be nice if we were all there together? 😉
It’ll be fun! Robert is smart and charming, and his book has already garnered praise from Kelly Link, Elizabeth Hand, Christopher Barzak, and many more.
What’s the book about? I’m so glad you asked:
When Michael “Blue” Whitley — a former party boy turned up-and-coming Brooklyn chef — returns with three friends to the remote Canadian commune of his birth, he discovers that his entire life has been a carefully orchestrated lie. He is in fact someone else altogether, a replacement for a local child who disappeared twenty-five years earlier. He is something not quite human.
Only now it’s Blue’s turn to vanish, leaving his friends to unravel the mystery of his abduction. Soon, psychology and skepticism collide with old-world folklore and superstition, revealing the secret history of the commune as well as that of an ancient race of beings that inhabits the hidden corners of the land.
Set among the artisans, burnouts, and New Age mystics of rural Cape Breton, The Glittering World is a dark and modern fairy tale, a novel of self-identity and supernatural suspense.
New Yorkers can help Robert celebrate the launch of the book Tuesday, Feb 10 at the release party at BookCourt in Brooklyn. Robert also has bookstore appearances in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Westfield NJ, as well as an appearance at Seattle’s Mythic Worlds convention.
Join us at Third Place!
Enjoy your day.
Oh my! This sounds like fun! I’m already thinking of the “little people” of Irish folklore…and changelings that replace stolen children. Not at all sure if that’s where this book will go, but you’ve got my attention. It seems to me that Robert Levy might have some “underlying social messaging” intertwined with his fantasy story. If so, and if the book is as good as it sounds…I’d be interested in having Robert on my radio show, Prose, Poetry & Purpose (11am Sat/Sun on 101.9 FM). http://www.voiceofvashon.org/prose-poetry-and-purpose
If you’ve got an advance copy I can review, send it here:
11933 SW Cove Rd
Vashon, WA 98070
Thanks, March Twisdale
Glad it sounds interesting! And I hope you can come to the conversation and reading.
You’ll need to contact Robert directly about review copies and an interview. Here’s a link to the contact form on his website.