Tonight: Esi Edugyan, 2011 Giller Prize Winner

[Jay Dolmage]

Giller Prize winner Esi Edugyan will be reading from the novel Half Blood
Blues TONIGHT
Thursday February 16th, 7:00 pm
Siegfried Hall, St. Jerome's University, Waterloo
Sponsored by the University of Waterloo Department of English

Win Siemerling, distinguished Professor of English at Waterloo will be the
MC for the event.

Here is some information about the novel, from the Giller jury's citation:

"Imagine Mozart were a black German trumpet player and Salieri a bassist,
and 18th century Vienna were WWII Paris; that's Esi Edugyan's joyful
lament, Half-Blood Blues.  It's conventional to liken the prose in novels
about jazz to the music itself, as though there could be no higher praise.
In this case, say rather that any jazz musician would be happy to play the
way Edugyan writes.  Her style is deceptively conversational and easy, but
with the simultaneous exuberance and discipline of a true prodigy.  Put
this book next to Louis Armstrong's "West End Blues" – these two works of
art belong together."

Half Blood Blues is also the current (and inaugural) selection for the
Globe and Mail's online book club:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/half-blood-blues-launches-globe-books-online-book-club/article2301816/

Jay

-- 
Jay Dolmage, Ph.D
Editor, Canadian Journal of Disability Studies
Assistant Professor of English
University of Waterloo
Department of English
Hagey Hall of Humanities Building
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
Tel: 519 888 4567 x31035
Fax: 519 746 5788
dolmage at uwaterloo.ca