The Last Rose of Summer (Fantagraphics)
Monte Schulz, author of This Side of Jordan, returns to Skylight to read and sign his follow-up novel The Last Rose of Summer! Praise for This Side of Jordan: "Beautifully written and thoroughly researched, a veritable time-machine that whirled me through time to the dirty back roads of the American midwest in the year before the Depression. ... Did I mention how good the writing is? The writing is excellent… a masterpiece of setting and storytelling." –Cory Doctorow Monte Schulz, the eldest son of Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, received his M.A. in American Studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he continues to reside. His latest novel, The Last Rose of Summer, is his third. His first, Down by the River, was published by Viking in 1991. Library Journal raved that it compared to Stand by Me and Twin Peaks, and seemed "ready-made for Hollywood." He spent ten years writing Crossing Eden, from which The Last Rose of Summer is drawn as the second of three interconnected novels; the first, This Side of Jordan, was published in 2009 by Fantagraphics and won the 2010 USA Book News Award for fiction, and the third, The Big Town, will be published in 2012. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS MARCH 6, 2011.