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In Conversation: New York Times Best-Selling Author Cathleen Gildiner Discusses Her Latest Novel - "Coming Ashore"
In Conversation: New York Times Best-Selling Author Cathleen Gildiner Discusses Her Latest Novel - "Coming Ashore"
Friday, February 6th, 5 pm
Tickets $10 sold on Brown Paper Tickets
Signed Copies of Ms. Gildiner's books available for purchase thanks to The Great Good Place for Books
Written with the same spirit and wit as the bestselling Too Close to the Falls and After the Falls, Coming Ashore (ECW Press, October 1, 2014) is the third and final volume of Catherine Gildiner's memoir series. Picking up her story in the late '60s at age twenty-one, Cathy whisks through seven years and three countries. Whether reciting verse in the classrooms of Oxford University, arranging a date with Jimi Hendrix, teaching inner city kids literature, rooming with a major drug dealer, falling in love, or working in a psychiatric hospital, Cathy determinedly blazes her own trail through all the passion and uncertainty that comes with the cusp of adulthood.
Coming Ashore transports readers to a fascinating era populated by lively characters, but most memorable of all is the singular Cathy McClure.
Catherine Gildiner's childhood memoir Too Close to the Falls (1999) was a New York Times and Globe and Mail bestseller. In 2009, she published the sequel, After the Falls, also a bestseller. Her novel, Seduction (2005), was an international bestseller. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Reviews:
"Coming Ashore is an entertaining, often very funny book by a woman who knows how to spin a good tale." Quill & Quire
"An irresistible roller-coaster ride full of humor, wise insights, and poignant reflections." Publishers Weekly
"This big-hearted book unfolds like conversation over wine with your funniest, most insightful friend. It's a wonder Catherine Gildiner survived her daredevil years, but what a treat to relive them with such a vivid storyteller." Rona Maynard, author of My Mother's Daughter and former editor of Chatelaine
"This is one unforgettable trip down memory lane, a journey told with warmth, humour and insight." Judy Fong Bates, author of The Year of Finding Memory
"Part travelogue, part book of secrets, Catherine Gildiner's Coming Ashore captures an era of unrest with honesty, humour and enticing detail. Grab your backpack, don your tie-dye and see the world through Cathy's eyes. You're in for an amazing ride." Ami McKay, author of The Virgin Cure
"Writing about a time of social transition and cultural upheaval, Catherine Gildiner's guiding voice charming, affable, unflappable, dryly funny, and keenly perceptive guides us through seven years of her eventful, extraordinary journey on this planet." Wayne Johnston, author of The Son of a Certain Woman
About the Author
Catherine Gildiner's childhood memoir Too Close to the Falls (1999) was a New York Times bestseller and on the Globe and Mail's bestseller list for over a year. In 2010, she published a sequel, After the Falls, also a bestseller. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Bio
Catherine Gildiner has written the best selling childhood memoir titled Too Close to the Falls. It was on the Toronto Globe and Mail's best sellers' list for an amazing 157 weeks and the New York Times list as well. A decade later, she published a sequel, a teenage memoir of life in the 60's called After the Falls. Now she has written her third and final memoir called Coming Ashore, which covers her life as a student at Oxford in England, teaching in the burning ghetto in Cleveland, and finally her graduate school years in Toronto. She has also written Seduction, a novel about Darwin and Freud, which has been an international bestseller and was listed by Der Spiegel in Germany as one of the year's ten best mysteries.
She did a Ph.D. on Darwin's influence on Freud. While she was a psychologist for 25 years in private practice she wrote for various newspapers and magazines. She was on an international rowing team for fifteen years and owns a working farm. When not at her farm she, lives mostly in Toronto with her husband. She has three grown sons.
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801 Magnolia Ave
Piedmont, CA 94611
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