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Join us as we welcome author Alice Elliott Dark to our "event tent!" Dark will discuss her latest book: Fellowship Point. Dark will be in conversation with her husband, Story Prize director Larry Dark. She will take questions from the audience and sign books after her presentation.
You can pre-order the book (published July 5th) before the event. If you can't make it to the event but would still like a signed copy, you can order below and write "signed to ___" ... view more »
No registration required.
Join us as we welcome author Alice Elliott Dark to our “event tent!” Dark will discuss her latest book: Fellowship Point. Dark will be in conversation with her husband, Story Prize director Larry Dark. She will take questions from the audience and sign books after her presentation.
You can pre-order the book (published July 5th) before the event. If you can’t make it to the event but would still like a signed copy, you can order below and write “signed to ___” in the comments section of your order, or call us at 508-888-2331.
STAFF REVIEWS
“Dark’s writing is so brilliant and insightful from the beginning of this book to its perfect end. This is a story set solidly on the Maine coast and deeply rooted in family, lifelong friendship and concern for the natural environment. .It is a story to savor and share with a friend!”
— From Vicky’s Recommendations
“Fellowship Point is a beautifully written novel that deals with the lifelong friendship of two very different women. Alice Elliott Dark writes about the challenges of friendship, family relationships and the preservation of nature with poignancy and humor. I look forward to recommending it to readers who enjoy an exceptionally well-written book!”
— From Elizabeth’s Recommendations
“A sink your teeth in saga of friendship, nature, ecology and writing with a shocking twist! I love a novel where the setting is as much a character as the people. A beautifully written novel for anyone!”
— From Fran’s Recommendations
ABOUT THE BOOK
The masterful story of a lifelong friendship between two very different women with shared histories and buried secrets, tested in the twilight of their lives, set across the arc of the 20th century.
Celebrated children’s book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy—to complete what she knows will be the final volume of her pseudonymously written Franklin Square novels; and even more consuming, to permanently protect the peninsula of majestic coast in Maine known as Fellowship Point. To donate the land to a trust, Agnes must convince shareholders to dissolve a generations-old partnership. And one of those shareholders is her best friend, Polly.
Polly Wister has led a different kind of life than Agnes: that of a well-off married woman with children, defined by her devotion to her husband, and philosophy professor with an inflated sense of stature. She exalts in creating beauty and harmony in her home, in her friendships, and in her family. Polly soon finds her loyalties torn between the wishes of her best friend and the wishes of her three sons—but what is it that Polly wants herself?
Agnes’s designs are further muddied when an enterprising young book editor named Maud Silver sets out to convince Agnes to write her memoirs. Agnes’s resistance cannot prevent long-buried memories and secrets from coming to light with far-reaching repercussions for all.
Fellowship Point reads like a classic 19th-century novel in its beautifully woven, multilayered narrative, but it is entirely contemporary in the themes it explores; a deep and empathic interest in women’s lives, the class differences that divided us, the struggle to protect the natural world, and, above all, a reckoning with intimacy, history, and posterity. It is a masterwork from Alice Elliott Dark.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Alice Elliott Dark is the author Think of England and two collections of short stories, In the Gloaming and Naked to the Waist. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The New York Times, Best American Short Stories, and O. Henry: Prize Stories, among others. Her award-winning story “In the Gloaming” was made into two films. Dark is a past recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She is an Associate Professor at Rutgers-Newark in the MFA program.
ABOUT LARRY DARK
Larry Dark is the Director of The Story Prize, an annual book award for short story collections now in its nineteenth year. Winners include Edwidge Danticat, Tobias Wolff, Anthony Doerr, George Saunders, Adam Johnson, Elizabeth Strout, and Lauren Groff. Before that he was Series Editor for the O. Henry Awards for six years. He has compiled, edited, and introduced eleven short story anthologies, most recently The Story Prize: 15 Years of Great Short Fiction
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Titcomb’s Bookshop
432 Route 6A, East Sandwich, MA 02537
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