Bruce Holbert Reads from Lonesome Animals Today at Darvill's

If you love crime fiction, but hate two-dimensional characters...
If you love westerns, but hate the false history of Indian-as-threat and settler-as-hero...
If you love action, but only when it serves a purpose in the plot...
If you love hard-nosed lyricism, but can rarely find it...

...you won't want to miss Bruce Holbet reading from his highly acclaimed first novel, Lonesome Animals, today at Darvill's Bookstore in Eastsound.

For a preview of Holbert's writing, read his thoughtful and heart-wrenching essay in the New York times about accidentally killing a friend when he was a young man:

Then come to Darvill's to hear the work of a writer who knows violence firsthand, and writes about it not to be sensational but in a quest for redemption of the true history of the west, and redemption of civilization itself. Followed by wine, hors d'eouvres, and open mic. Open and free to the public.

Artsmith Reading Series at Darvill's Bookstore
1 Main Street, Eastsound, WA
6:00 pm, Sunday, October 13, 2013