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Bag of Books by JoeAnn Hart
- Item Number
- 114
- Estimated Value
- 95 USD
- Sold
- 40 USD to loveauctions
- Number of Bids
- 6 - Bid History
Item Description
This bag of books includes a signed advance copy of JoeAnn Hart's new novel, Float, due to be published in February 2013 by the eco-literary Ashland Creek Press. If you don’t know this author you should! She writes in a smart, funny way about critical ecological issues.
Float is the story of one man’s attempt to save his business (a fish dehydration plant) and his marriage (to a marriage counselor), while attempting to develop a jellyfish alternative to the plastics that are killing the oceans.
Q&A with the author: Where did the idea come from for the book? As with most of my work, the title came to me first, so I played around with the different meanings of the word float. Suddenly I had a character, Duncan Leland, who was sinking in his business and marriage, so I brought him to the water, thinking something float-like might occur there. What’s floating at the beach? Plastic. What washes up everywhere? Plastic. Seagulls are always at the beach too, so I put the plastic and the bird together, slipping a six-pack holder over the poor creatures’ head. Duncan saves the bird by removing the plastic, and I realized that was the book: The impact of plastics in the ocean on the natural world, of which we, and Duncan, are both part of the problem and the solution.
This item also includes:
A hardcover copy of her first novel, Addled, is in the bag, along with a short story anthology, Coming Home, and three signed literary magazines, all of which include Hart, but also many other writers and poets such as Carol Bly, Floyd Skloot, and Phillip Lopate. The whole collection comes in an Ecotone Magazine reusable bag, with the shopping reminder: "Milk, Eggs, Bread, Books."
Addled, a novel of golf and geese, was published by Little, Brown.
Literary Magazines are Inkwell, Open City, and Prairie Schooner.
Float will be published in February 2013
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