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SUMMARY:"World Pacific" with Peter Mann
DESCRIPTION:Peter Mann\, a past Writer-in-Resident at the Hemingway House 
 with The Community Library\, returns to discuss his new novel: World 
 Pacific\, which he worked on\, in part\, while in residency in Ketchum in 
 2023.\n\nA darkly comic novel of intrigue\, adventure\, and the perils of 
 self-invention from the author of The Torqued Man\, set in San Francisco 
 and the Asian Pacific during the outbreak of the Second World War.\n\nIn 
 1939\, just as the clouds of war are gathering\, Richard Halifax—boys' 
 adventure writer of manly bravado and the breeziest of prose 
 styles—vanishes in the Pacific. Halifax was attempting to sail a Chinese 
 junk from Hong Kong to San Francisco as part of the World’s Fair 
 festivities on Treasure Island. But while his disappearance upends the 
 lives of those left in his wake back home\, both his machinations and his 
 letters to his young readers live on.\n\nHildegard Rauch\, an émigré 
 painter and the daughter of Germany’s greatest living writer in exile\, 
 finds her twin brother in a coma after an attempted suicide. He left a 
 mysterious note that sends her on a search for the truth about her 
 brother’s relationship with Richard Halifax and the dangerous secret he 
 entrusted to the writer before his voyage.\n\nSimon Faulk\, a British 
 intelligence officer\, has been assigned to ferret out Nazi spies in 
 California. He learns of the arrival of a mysterious American agent from 
 across the Pacific\, part of a joint German-Japanese operation.\n\nTold in 
 the alternating voices of these three characters\, set against the growing 
 threat of another world war and a World’s Fair dedicated to peace\, World 
 Pacific is a madcap quixotic tale that explores the many forms of 
 shipwreck\, exile\, betrayal\, and the stories we tell ourselves in the 
 fight to stay afloat. \n\nBook signing with Iconoclast Books to 
 follow.\n\nRegistration recommended to join us in person. To watch live 
 online (no registration needed): https://vimeo.com/event/5776850. The 
 recording will be available to watch later on The Community Library's Event 
 Archive.
LOCATION:John A. and Carole O. Moran Lecture Hall\, The Community Library
ORGANIZER;CN="Martha Williams":MAILTO:mwilliams@comlib.org
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Conversations
CONTACT;CN="Martha Williams":MAILTO:mwilliams@comlib.org
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