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Today's Featured Title and Contest |
October 6, 2016 |
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This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this fall. Read more about it, and enter our Fall Preview Contest by Friday, October 7th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of THE SECRET CHORD by Geraldine Brooks, which is now available in paperback. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly! |
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Today's Featured Book and Contest: THE SECRET CHORD by Geraldine Brooks
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A rich and utterly absorbing novel about the life of King David, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of PEOPLE OF THE BOOK and MARCH.
With more than two million copies of her novels sold, New York Times bestselling author Geraldine Brooks has achieved both popular and critical acclaim. Now, Brooks takes on one of literature’s richest and most enigmatic figures: a man who shimmers between history and legend. Peeling away the myth to bring David to life in Second Iron Age Israel, Brooks traces the arc of his journey from obscurity to fame, from shepherd to soldier, from hero to traitor, from beloved king to murderous despot, and into his remorseful and diminished dotage.
THE SECRET CHORD provides new context for some of the best-known episodes of David’s life while also focusing on others, even more remarkable and emotionally intense, that have been neglected. We see David through the eyes of those who love him or fear him --- from the prophet Natan, voice of his conscience, to his wives Mikhal, Avigail and Batsheva, and finally to Solomon, the late-born son who redeems his Lear-like old age. Brooks has an uncanny ability to hear and transform characters from history, and this beautifully written, unvarnished saga of faith, desire, family, ambition, betrayal and power will enthrall her many fans.
-Click here to read a review.
-Click here to read an excerpt.
-Click here to visit Geraldine Brooks' official website.
-Connect with Geraldine Brooks on Facebook and Twitter.
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