The Friends of the Library of Tampa-Hillsborough County, Inc. welcome award-winning writer and poet
Enid Shomer to the Four Seasons Author Series. This special event will take place at the
University Club of Tampa on Friday, October 19, 2012 at noon.
In her new novel
The twelve rooms of the Nile, Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert ignite a friendship marked by intelligence, humor, and ravishing tenderness that will alter both their destinies. In Shomer’s deft hands, the two unlikely soul mates come together to share their darkest torments and most fervent hopes. As they travel up the Nile, exploring Egypt’s many wonders—the Cairo markets, the rapids at Aswan, Abu Simbel, the Temple of Osiris, a desert excursion to the Red Sea—we experience alongside them the opulent, varied tapestry of the mid-nineteenth century Ottoman world.
Enid Shomer’s work has appeared in
The New Yorker,
The Paris Review,
The New York Times Book Review, and
The Atlantic Monthly, among other publications. She is the author of four books of poetry and two story collections,
Tourist Season, which was awarded the Florida Book Award for General Fiction and named a Barnes and Noble “Discover Great New Writers” pick, and
Imaginary Men, which won the Iowa Short Fiction Award and the LSU/
Southern Review Award. She is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Florida Arts Council and has appeared on NPR’S
Morning Edition and
All Things Considered. She lives in Tampa, Florida.
The Four Seasons Author Series is presented by
the Friends of the Library of Tampa-Hillsborough County, Inc. The subscription series offers four consecutive literary lunches at which guest authors are invited to speak on a variety of subjects, followed by a question and answer period and a book signing for those who wish to purchase the featured book.
Seats for the Four Seasons Luncheon are $30. Subscriptions for four consecutive luncheons are $100. Reservations are necessary to attend.
To reserve your seat for the luncheon, call the Friends office at 813-273-3616 or e-mail
fourseasonsluncheon@gmail.com. RSVP by Monday, October 15, 2012.
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