Author Reading with Nino Ricci - East Gwillimbury Library

Details:
This event is hosted by Friends of East Gwillimbury Library with the support of Southlake Cinemania.

Location:  The Town of East Gwillimbury Civic Centre, 19000 Leslie Street, Sharon - Council Chambers

Reception with refreshments will follow.
Admission $10, $8 FOL members

Tickets available at the Holland Landing and Mount Albert Libraries and by chance at the door.
Questions egfriends@sympatico.ca

Nino Ricci’s first novel was the internationally acclaimed Lives of the Saints. It spent 75 weeks on the Globe and Mail‘s bestseller list and was the winner of the F.G. Bressani Prize, the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and the Governor General’s Award for Fiction. In England it won Betty Trask Award and Winnifred Holtby Prize, in the U.S. was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and in France was an Oiel de la lettre Selection of the National Libraries Association.

Ricci’s most recent novel is the national bestseller The Origin of Species, which earned him the Canadian Authors Association Fiction Award as well as his second Governor General’s Award for Fiction. Set in Montreal in 1980s, the novel casts a Darwinian eye on the life of Alex Fratarcangeli, who is torn between his baser impulses and his pursuit of the Good. “This novel does so well, on so many levels,” wrote the Toronto Star, “that it’s hard to know where to begin tallying up the riches.”