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Please join
us</b></font><font face="Bookman Old Style, Bookman" size=5><br><br>
</font><font face="Bookman Old Style, Bookman" size=6>Wednesday, May 16,
2007 3:15 – 4:30 PM</font></h6><br><br>
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</i></b></font><font face="Bookman Old Style, Bookman" size=6>When the
UCR Libraries' <br>
AUTHOR SERIES<br>
will present<br><br>
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A Million Nightingales</i></b></font></h3><br><br>
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</i></b></font><font face="Bookman Old Style, Bookman" size=6>at<br>
Rivera Library<br>
Special Collections – 4th floor<br>
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</font><font face="Bookman Old Style, Bookman" size=5><b>Susan
Straight</b>, Professor of Creative Writing at UCR and the author of
several acclaimed novels, essays, and articles, will read from her latest
work, <i>A Million Nightingales. </i>The meticulously-researched book
tells the story of 14-year old Moinette, born to a slave girl raped by a
white man. A beautiful and intelligent young woman, Moinette must make
her way in the brutal world of antebellum slavery. In <i>The New York
Times Book Review </i>Straight’s novel was praised as “a powerful and
moving story, written in language so beautiful that you can almost
believe the words themselves are capable of salving history’s
wounds.”<br>
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<b><i>Refreshments will be served immediately following the
lecture.</i></b></font> <br>
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John M. Ganim<br>
President, New Chaucer Society<br>
Professor of English<br>
Department of English<br>
University of California, Riverside<br>
900 University Avenue<br>
Riverside CA 92521<br>
TEL (951) 827-1540<br>
FAX (951) 827-3967<br>
ON CAMPUS PHONE 21540<br>
EMAIL John.Ganim@UCR.EDU<br>
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http://www.english.ucr.edu/people/faculty/ganim/index.html<br>
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