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Joanne Proulx
Dear Librarian, I started writing ANTHEM OF A RELUCTANT PROPHET the winter George Bush set his sights on Iraq. The same winter my sister learned she had six months to live. During those months, I was haunted by death foretold on both a grand and an intimate scale. This same stuff haunts seventeen-year-old Luke Hunter, the reluctant prophet of my novel. As the drums of war sound in the background, Luke's ability to predict death has him struggling to understand the value of a human life and searching for someone, or something, to believe in. One critic said of Anthem, "Unaware, you watch Luke, recognize him, worry for him, until gradually you feel his ache, and his aching entry into adulthood, in your bones." When I wrote the book, this is what I wanted. For readers to be moved by Luke and his story. To hear his music, to feel his losses, to celebrate his gains. And when they closed the book, I hoped those same readers would take some of Luke and his hard won wisdom with them, that they'd listen a little more closely for 'the distilled hum of a hundred million souls that plays somewhere just beyond our reach.' Enter at www.sohopress.com/books/anthemofareluctantprophet.html to win an iPod touch or one of 5 signed copies of the book. Please email me at joanne@sohopress.com. Best, Joanne Proulx
Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet / Joanne Proulx / Soho Press / Paperback; 368 Pages
Price: $14.00 / ISBN: 978-1569474877 / Published: April, 2008 Joanne Proulx is one of our featured authors this week. Click here to view her reader comments and feel free to use them in your newsletters. |