Andre Dubus and Thomas Kennedy, Townie and In the Company of Angels

Start: 04/05/2010 7:00 pm

"Dubus proves himself both an exquisitely careful craftsman and a painstaking recorder of society."

Boston Magazine

"A Consummate exploration of the themes of violence, religion in modern Europe, the rise of antisocial tendencies in the great social democracies, and love… [In the Company of Angels] lacks nothing … Kennedy is a master craftsman …"

Books Ireland

Andre Dubus III is the author of The Garden of Last Days, Bluesman, The Cage Keeper and Other Stories, and House of Sand and Fog (a National Book Award Finalist and Oprah Book Club Selection). His writing has received many honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Magazine Award, and a Pushcart Prize. He lives with his family north of Boston. His memoir Townie is forthcoming in February 2011.

Thomas Kennedy is the author of eight novels, as well as several collections of short stories and essays, and has won numerous awards including the Eric Hoffer Award, the Pushcart Prize, the O. Henry Prize and the National Magazine Award. He teaches creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University. In the Company of Angels was first published in Ireland in 2004, as Greene's Summer, to rapturous critical acclaim. It is one of four novels comprising the Copenhagen Quartet.