Novelist Deborah Lee Luskin Makes Rare Out-of-State Book Appearance
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Williamsville, VT, October 08, 2010 --( Luskin’s heroine Rose Mayer is a lot like Jane Austen’s Elizabeth Bennett: smart, fiercely independent and very outspoken.Critics have hailed “Into the Wilderness” as “a fiercely intelligent love story,” and “a perfectly gratifying read.” Readers routinely say, “I didn’t want it to end but I couldn’t put it down.Luskin will be reading in the McManus Room at The Westport Public Library, which is located at 22 Jessup Road on Tuesday, October 12.Luskin rarely tours out-of-state.Luskin’s heroine Rose Mayer is a lot like Jane Austen’s Elizabeth Bennett: smart, fiercely independent and very outspoken.And its a tale of rural Vermont at mid-century, a time when the major technological advance was the Interstate, a road-building project that changed rural America as much as the information highway is changing the world today.Critics have hailed “Into the Wilderness” as “a fiercely intelligent love story,” and “a perfectly gratifying read.” Readers routinely say, “I didn’t want it to end but I couldn’t put it down.Luskin will be reading in the McManus Room at The Westport Public Library, which is located at 22 Jessup Road on Tuesday, October 12.