Bestselling author J.K. Rowling is making only one public stop in the U.S. to discuss her first novel for adults, The Casual Vacancy. That stop will be broadcast at Book Passage as it happpens. We will be screening a webcast of her onstage conversation, hosted by critically acclaimed author Ann Patchett.
A big novel about a small town...When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils...Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity, and unexpected revelations? A big novel about a small town, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling's first novel for adults. It is the work of a storyteller like no other.
J.K. Rowling is the author of the bestselling Harry Potter series of seven books, published between 1997 and 2007, which have sold over 450 million copies worldwide, are distributed in more than 200 territories, have been translated into 73 languages, and have been turned into eight blockbuster films.
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ISBN: 9780316228534
Published: Little, Brown and Company - September 27th, 2012