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hermetic

(8,310 posts)
Sat Jan 13, 2024, 02:13 PM Jan 2024

"A grand and wonderful literary project"

A spectacular novel called FOURTEEN DAYS will be published on February 6. This novel is a collaboration among 36 prominent, bestselling authors, including Diana Gabaldon, John Grisham, Margaret Atwood, Dave Eggers, Celeste Ng, Scott Turow, R.L. Stine, Sylvia Day, Erica Jong, Mary Pope Osborne, Tommy Orange and many more. Never has such dazzling literary talent been gathered between the covers of a book!

Set in a Lower East Side tenement in Manhattan, during the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, this is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice.
One week into the shutdown, the tenants have begun to gather on the rooftop and tell stories. With each passing night, more and more neighbors come together. Gradually the tenants—some of whom had barely spoken to each other before—become real neighbors. A dazzling, heartwarming, and ultimately surprising narrative, FOURTEEN DAYS reveals how beneath the horrible loss and suffering, some communities managed to become stronger.
All income from FOURTEEN DAYS will benefit the Authors Guild, America's oldest and largest professional association of authors, to support free expression, literacy, and education.
With best wishes,
Doug Preston

Pre order here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/fourteen-days-margaret-atwooddouglas-preston?variant=41071594831906
Preston and Gabaldon will be guests at a special event and book-signing on February 5, hosted by the Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale, AZ. More info: https://calendar.time.ly/9plshfqx/posterboard;event=77249955;instance=20240205183000

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"A grand and wonderful literary project" (Original Post) hermetic Jan 2024 OP
Visual artists- painters- call this an exquisite corpse. FalloutShelter Jan 2024 #1
Stay tuned... hermetic Jan 2024 #6
Sounds wonderful. Putting this one on my list. Thanks, hermetic! japple Jan 2024 #2
Doesn't it? hermetic Jan 2024 #5
Thank you for this. joshdawg Jan 2024 #3
Me too hermetic Jan 2024 #4

FalloutShelter

(11,878 posts)
1. Visual artists- painters- call this an exquisite corpse.
Sat Jan 13, 2024, 02:27 PM
Jan 2024

Any number of painters working, successively over a single canvas.

Looks super interesting.

hermetic

(8,310 posts)
4. Me too
Sat Jan 13, 2024, 05:21 PM
Jan 2024

I even went for the signed copy. It wasn't all that pricey and I think it will be a nice treasure to leave my granddaughter. AND I can't wait to read it.

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