Famous Friends
10 Autographed Copies of "Happens Every Day" & Book Discussion w/ Author Isabel Gillies
- Item Number
- 158
- Estimated Value
- Priceless
- Sold
- 300 USD to Live Event Bidder
- Number of Bids
- 1 - Bid History
Item Description
Ten (10) Signed Copies of New York Times Best-Selling Memoir Sensation, HAPPENS EVERY DAY: An All Too-True Story, by Isabel Gillies.
PLUS the winning bidder will have the opportunity to invite nine friends to join the author, Ms. Gillies, in a mini-book-group gathering to discuss the themes of her book--love, marriage, family, betrayal, divorce, and the ultimate triumph of living to love and marry a second time around. A truly special opportunity for any book-lover or student of life!
Memoir Description:
Isabel Gillies had a wonderful life - a handsome, intelligent, loving husband; two glorious toddlers; a beautiful house; the time and place to express all her ebullience and affection and optimism. Suddenly, that life was over.
When Josiah took a teaching job at a Midwestern college, Isabel and their sons moved with him from New York City to Ohio, where Isabel taught acting, threw herself into the college community, and delighted in the less-scheduled lives of toddlers raised away from the city. But within a few months, the marriage was over. The life Isabel had made crumbled. "Happens every day," said a friend.
Far from a self-pitying diatribe, Happens Every Day reads like an intimate conversation between friends. Gillies has written a dizzyingly candid, compulsively readable, ultimately redemptive story about love, marriage, family, heartbreak, and the unexpected turns of a life. On the one hand, reading this book is like watching a train wreck. On the other hand, as Gillies herself says, it is about "trying to light a candle instead of cursing the darkness, and loving your life even if it has slipped away." Hers is a remarkable new voice-instinctive, funny, and irresistible.
Item Special Note
- Winner will contact Ms. Gilles to establist a mutually convenient date and time in the NYC metropolitan area to hold book discussion
- Book discussion must be held by March 1, 2011. Ms. Gillies will not be available between June 15th - September 15th.
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