Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 14:22:08 -0500
From: “Lindgren, Kerstin”
Subject: Janice YK Lee & Neil Sheehan to Read at McIntyre’s Books Jan. 13th
Wednesday, January 13 2pm
McIntyre’s Author Event: Janice Y.K. Lee
Janice Y.K. Lee visits to read from The Piano Teacher. In the sweeping
tradition of The English Patient, Janice Y.K. Lee’s debut novel is a
tale of love and betrayal set in war-torn Hong Kong. In 1942, Englishman
Will Truesdale falls headlong into a passionate relationship with Trudy
Liang, a beautiful Eurasian socialite. But their affair is soon
threatened by the invasion of the Japanese as World War II overwhelms
their part of the world. Ten years later, Claire Pendleton comes to Hong
Kong to work as a piano teacher and also begins a fateful affair. As the
threads of this spellbinding novel intertwine, impossible choices
emerge-between love and safety, courage and survival, the present, and
above all, the past. Janice Y. K. Lee was born and raised in Hong Kong
and graduated from Harvard College.
Wednesday, January 13 4pm
McIntyre’s Author Event: Neil Sheehan
McIntyre’s welcomes Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning
classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes to McIntyre’s to read from A Fiery
Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon. Here is
the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed
history-and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard
Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort. A Fiery Peace in a Cold War
is a masterly work about Schriever’s quests to prevent the Soviet Union
from acquiring nuclear superiority, to penetrate and exploit space for
America, and to build the first weapons meant to deter an atomic
holocaust rather than to be fired in anger. Sheehan melds biography and
history, politics and science, to create a sweeping narrative that
transports the reader back and forth from individual drama to world
stage. The narrative takes us from Schriever’s boyhood in Texas as a
six-year-old immigrant from Germany in 1917 through his apprenticeship
in the open-cockpit biplanes of the Army Air Corps in the 1930s and his
participation in battles against the Japanese in the South Pacific
during the Second World War. On his return, he finds a new postwar
bipolar universe dominated by the antagonism between the United States
and the Soviet Union. Sheehan spent three years in Vietnam as a war
correspondent for United Press International and The New York Times and
won numerous awards for his reporting. In 1971, he obtained the Pentagon
Papers, which brought the Times the Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for
meritorious public service.