Online Chat with Ray Robertson
Online Chat with Ray Robertson
Wednesday, April 23, 7 PM, EDT
Book Buzz is delighted to welcome author Ray Robertson for an online chat.
I Was There The Night He Died, his most recent novel is described as "a saucy, swaggering look at loss, love, and the redeeming power of music in the twenty-first century". In the book, Sam Samson, a recently widowed writer, returns to his hometown to deal with issues arising from his father's Alzheimer's Disease and his uncle's gambling. An unlikely friendship develops between Sam and an eighteen year old neighbour who is coping with her own struggles.
His book Why Not: Fifteen Reasons to Live was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Prize for Non-Fiction and longlisted for the Charles Taylor Prize for Non-Fiction. It documents the author's recent battle with depression and examines the universal philosophical question of what makes life worth living. The book inspired a film by Alan Zweig and is screening at Toronto's Hot Docs Film Festival on April 27, April 29, and May 5.
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Why Not? Fifteen Reasons to Live
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Mental Hygiene: Essays on Writers and Writing
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