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A young man's decision to connect with a stranger changes his life in unexpected ways in this thoughtful novel from Pulitzer-winning Seattle Times cartoonist David Horsey.Third Place Books welcomes editorial cartoonist and writer David Horsey to our Lake Forest Park store for a conversation about his new novel, Beach of Stars. David will be joined in conversation by Northwest news presenter and sketch comedy writer Nancy Guppy.
This event is free and open to the public. For important updates, RSVP is highly recommended in advance. This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A. Sustain our author series by purchasing a copy of the featured book!
About Beach of Stars. . .
National Book Award-winning author Timothy Egan calls David Horsey's Beach of Stars "a wonderful novel" and "a masterful bit of storytelling." National Book Award winner Charles Johnson says, "the novel is amazingly good." Best-selling author Will Schwalbe puts it simply: "The book is terrific." Beach of Stars opens with a 21-year-old college student working a summer job in Mexico. In an act of whimsy, he takes a beer to a young woman on a secluded beach. That simple decision ignites a chain of events that, twenty years on, lures him from his career in city politics into a search for the now-fugitive woman—a journey of revelation that climaxes in a star-crossed reckoning with the past. More than a romance, more than a mystery, Beach of Stars is an odyssey steered by the small choices, impulsive actions, bad timing and happy coincidences that propel human lives toward calamity or bliss.
David Horsey is a two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. After a long career at The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and six years as a political commentator for The Los Angeles Times, Horsey is now based at The Seattle Times. Horsey has been recognized as one of the University of Washington's 150 most distinguished graduates. Besides winning Pulitzers for the P-I in 1999 and 2003, Horsey was a Pulitzer finalist in 1987 and again in 2014 after joining the LA Times. Also in 2014, he received a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for his cartoons on social justice issues. Horsey took first place in the Best of the West journalism competition for his columns about the 2008 presidential campaign. A fourth-generation Washingtonian, David Horsey lives in Seattle with his wife, Nole Ann.
Nancy Guppy was a staff writer and performer on the KING 5 sketch comedy show “Almost Live” from 1992-1999; a sidekick and traffic chick on the KMPS morning radio show “Ichabod Caine & The Waking Crew” from 2003-2005; and has been the host/producer of "Art Zone with Nancy Guppy" on the Seattle Channel from 2008 to present. She is the recipient of a Writers Guild of America award, numerous Northwest Emmy awards, and, in May of 1976, was named Kiwanis Club Girl of the Month. More about Nancy at www.nancyguppy.org
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17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park, WA, United States, Washington 98155
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