[Englecturers] UCR Libraries' Author Series: Susan Straight

[John Ganim]

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>Wednesday, May 16, 2007  3:15 – 4:30 PM
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>When the UCR Libraries'
>AUTHOR SERIES
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>Susan Straight
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>author of
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>A Million Nightingales
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>Rivera Library
>Special Collections – 4th floor
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>Susan Straight, Professor of Creative Writing at 
>UCR and the author of several acclaimed novels, 
>essays, and articles, will read from her latest 
>work, A Million Nightingales. 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 The New 
>York Times Book Review 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.”
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>Refreshments will be served immediately following the lecture.
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John M. Ganim
President, New Chaucer Society
Professor of English
Department of English
University of California, Riverside
900 University Avenue
Riverside CA 92521
TEL (951) 827-1540
FAX (951) 827-3967
ON CAMPUS PHONE 21540
EMAIL John.Ganim at UCR.EDU
http://www.english.ucr.edu/people/faculty/ganim/index.html
http://artsci.wustl.edu/~chaucer/

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