Hi, Brian.
Everyone’s invited to my book
launch on June 12th at Massey College. Ben McNally Books will be selling We Were The Bullfighters at the launch, but you can
also pre-order from them (here) and they will deliver your
book to the launch.
Please let me know if you
plan to come. There will be wine and hors d'oevres and a slightly nervous
author.
Marianne
https://www.mariannemiller.ca
https:/wewerethebullfighters.com
P.S.
Besides the book launch on June 12, this Saturday, June 1, there’s a book signing
at the Indigo at the Cataraqui Centre in Kingston, 12–3 p.m.
But if you
can’t make the launch, you can order your copy from Ben McNally Books in
Toronto here
or from Chapters/Indigo here.
See more new books by your fellow authors – and invites to their book launches – here (and scroll down).
We Were the Bullfighters
by Marianne K. Miller
Sent to cover bank robber Red Ryan’s daring prison break, a young
Ernest Hemingway becomes fascinated with the convict.
In 1923, Ernest Hemingway, struggling with the responsibilities of marriage and unexpected fatherhood, has just made a big mistake. He decided that for the baby’s first year he would interrupt his fledgling writing career in Paris and move his family to North America. No longer a freelancer, he now has a gruelling job with a difficult boss, as a staff reporter for the Toronto Daily Star. On his first day, already feeling hemmed in by circumstances, he's sent to cover a prison break at Kingston Pen.
The escaped convicts, led by notorious bank robber Norman “Red” Ryan, are on the run, making their way from the bush north of Kingston, to the streets of Toronto, and then through towns and cities across the United States. Their crimes become more brazen, their lifestyle increasingly glamorous. Growing more and more preoccupied with Ryan and his willingness to risk everything to be free, Hemingway ponders duty, freedom, and what stops a man from pursuing his dreams.
What People
Are Saying...
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| Marianne |
Paula
McLain, author of The Paris Wife:
“In her
debut novel, Marianne K. Miller renders a little-explored time in Hemingway’s
life with the accurate eye of the Hemingway scholar she happens to be, but also
with boldness and keen imagination. I turned every page of We Were the
Bullfighters with great pleasure and admiration.”
Kathryn
Kuitenbrouwer, author of Wait Softly Brother:
“Intriguing.
Hardboiled. Cinematic. We Were the Bullfighters is a truly
fine romp of a novel!”
Lee
Gowan, author of The Beautiful Place:
“A window
into Canada's role in the making of Ernest Hemingway in clear, clean
prose.”
Kim Echlin,
author of Speak, Silence:
“In this
wonderful story, the young Ernest Hemingway is a Toronto Daily Star reporter
who feels a strange connection to legendary bank robber, Red Ryan. Miller’s
expertise on Hemingway and her penetrating observations about our
responsibilities to our talents makes this a must-read historical fiction in
which “artists are like convicts” and people choose what they will sacrifice
for freedom.”
J.R.
McConvey, author of Different Beasts:
“Marianne
Miller brings a deceptively light touch to this evocative and finely researched
story of a colourful moment in the life of a burgeoning literary giant. With
efficient language that Hemingway would have liked, she gives us a rollicking
tale of escaped convicts on the run from Kingston Pen, and the young Toronto
crime reporter in pursuit of a story and a literary path. We Were the
Bullfighters wonderfully captures the character of Hemingway and the
atmosphere of Toronto in the 1920s.”
Barbara
Fradkin, author of the Inspector Green and Amanda Doucette mysteries:
“Skillfully capturing
the wild, rum-running 1920s, Marianne Miller creates a fascinating,
fictionalized tale of two men fighting to break free; one a young Hemingway
dreaming of his first great novel and the other, a daring bank robber on the run
from Kingston Penitentiary.”
Note: For information about submitting to Dundurn
Press (Marianne’s publisher), see here.
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