Kevin Guilfoile: book signing and discussion
Thu. 09/09 | 6:30PM @ Murder by the Book (map)
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- Thursday, September 9, at 6:30 p.m. Murder by the Book presents Kevin Guilfoile. Thriller writer Kevin Guifoile will sign & discuss his new book, The Thousand (Knopf; $25.95). Kevin Guilfoiles riveting follow-up to Cast of Shadows (Spellbinding Chicago Tribune; A masterpiece of intelligent plotting Salon) centers on an extraordinary young womans race to find her fathers killer and to free herself from the crossfire of a centuries-old, clandestine civil war in which she has unknowingly become ensnared. In 500 B.C. a mysterious ship appeared off the coast of what is now Italy. A man disembarked to address the frightened crowd along the shore. He called himself Pythagoras and when he was done speaking a thousand men and women abandoned their lives to follow him; his disciples would influence western philosophy, science, and mathematics for all time. Chicago, the present. Solomon Gold has tapped into valuable and dangerous secrets while composing his magnum opus: the Gold Completion of Mozarts infamous unfinished requiem. After he is murdered, his brilliant daughtera girl whose uncanny mental gifts have left her both powerful and troubledfinds herself racing to understand his composition, his murder, and, as violence erupts all around her, a fractured, ancient cult descended from the original disciples of Pythagoras. Kevin Guilfoile was born in Teaneck, N.J., and has lived in Pittsburgh and upstate New York. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame, worked for the Houston Astros, and moved to Chicago to work in advertising and get married (or vice versa). He has written short humor for McSweeneys, The New Republic, Modern Humorist, the Chicago Reader and this web magazine (The Morning News), and has been a commentator for National Public Radio. His humor has been anthologized in Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeneys Humor; May Contain Nuts: A Very Loose Canon of American Humor; 101 Damnations: The Humorists Tour of Personal Hells; and with John Warner he co-authored My First Presidency: A Scrapbook by George W Bush. He lives in Chicago with his wife and children.
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