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Arts & Letters Live: Peter Carey and Colm Tóibín
Date: April 28, 2010
Website: www.dallasmuseumofart.org
Location: Dallas Museum of Art
Address:
1717 North Harwood
Dallas TX 75201
7:30 PM
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Hailed by The Evening Standard as “one of the greatest storytellers of our time,” two-time Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey is the author of Oscar and Lucinda and The True History of the Kelly Gang. His forthcoming novel Parrot and Olivier in America, is a reimagining of Alexis de Tocqueville famous journey to America.
Internationally renowned Irish author Colm Tóibín has established himself as a major and distinctive voice in contemporary literature. He has been short-listed for the Booker Prize twice and The Master, his celebrated fictional portrait of Henry James, was the Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year. His latest novel Brooklyn is set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, when one young woman crossed the ocean to make a new life for herself.