DAGOBERTO GILB - Before the End, After the Beginning

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Adult Event

Start: 11/07/2011 7:00 pm

Award-Winning Author
DAGOBERTO GILB
will speak & sign his new short stoy collection,
Before the End, After the Beginning.

Before the End, After the Beginning is an exquisite collection of ten stories by Dagoberto Gilb. The pieces come in the wake of a stroke Gilb suffered at his home here in Austin in 2009, and a majority of the stories were written over his many months of recovery. The result is a powerful and triumphant book that tackles common themes of existence and identity and describes the American experience in a raw, authentic vernacular unique to Gilb.

Dagoberto Gilb is an accomplished storyteller whose debut collection, The Magic of Blood, won the prestigious PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for fiction in 1994. He is also the author of the books The Flowers, Gritos, Woodcuts of Women, and The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuña. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in many magazines, most recently Harper's, The New Yorker, and Callaloo, and is reprinted widely. Gilb is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and has been a finalist for both the PEN/Faulkner and National Book Critics Circle Award. He makes his home in Austin.

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