Sarah Waters at Simmons on April 7th
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Posted by Web Team, March 14, 2006
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Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change
Connecting Simmons to the Community and the Community to Simmons
presents
Center for New Words
Friday, April 7, 2006 at 7:00 p.m.
Room C103
Sarah Waters
The Night Watch
Sarah Waters, author of Tipping the Velvet and Booker Prize finalist Fingersmith, returns with a novel that marks a departure from the 19th century and a spectacular leap forward in the career of this masterful storyteller. Moving backwards through the 1940’s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit liasons, and sexual adventure, The Night Watch tells the story of four Londoners whose lives connect in ways that are not always known to them. The women work as ambulance drivers, ministry clerks, and building inspectors. There are feats of heroism, epic and emotional quotidian, and tragedies, both enormous and personal; but it is the emotional interiors of Waters’ characters that will change your life when you enter them.
Free and open to the public. For more information e-mail diane.hammer@simmons.edu.
