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Friday, September 19,2008, at 7:00 pm in the Main Meeting Room **The free tickets for this event have all been distributed** Due to high interest in this program, free tickets were distributed. With little advertising, the tickets were all taken in 2 1/2 days. The author's preference is to read in the Library rather than a larger venue. The reading will be taped and podcast. Please check her website for other Oregon events. www.ursulakleguin.com Ursula K. Le Guin will read from her new book, Lavinia. Following the reading, the author will sign books purchased at this event. In addition, she will sign up to 2 other books. Books will be sold by OSU Bookstore as a fundraiser for the Friends of the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library. For book reviews of Lavinia and information about the award-winning author, visit Le Guin's website at http://www.ursulakleguin.com/UKL_info.html.
About the Book Troy has fallen. Rome is a tiny village by the seven hills... At the end of Vergil’s epic poem The Aeneid, the Trojan hero Aeneas, following his destiny, is about to marry the Italian girl Lavinia. But in the poem, she has played only the slightest part, and has never spoken a word. Daughter of a local king, Lavinia has lived in peace and freedom, till suitors came seeking her hand, and a foreign fleet sailed up the Tiber. Now her mother wants her to marry handsome, ambitious Turnus, but strange omens, prophecies spoken by the voices of the sacred trees and springs, foretell that she must marry a stranger. And that she will be the cause of a bitter war. And that her husband will not live long. Lavinia is determined to follow her own destiny. And when she talks with the spirit of the poet in the sacred grove, she begins to see that destiny. So she gains her own voice, learning how to tell the story Vergil left untold — her story, her life, and the love of her life.
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This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Library.
