A Novel Love Story Acting & Auditioning

A Novel Love Story Acting & AuditioningA professor of literature finds herself caught up in a work of fictionliterally, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Year Slip and The Dead Romantics. Eileen Merriweather loves to get lost in a good happily ever after. The fictional kind, anyway. Because at least imaginary men dont leave you at the altar. She feels safe in a book. At home. Which might be why shes so set on going her annual book club retreat this yearshe needs good

and she is going into a funeral parlor to plan her own service

looking at their manifestations in works such as Norman Mailer’s “true life novel” The Executioner’s Song

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and her mother Florence is stubbornly refusing to leave the church where she’s been holed up for more than a week

But Anne and her powerful family will not yield without a ferocious struggle

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changing one life after another with the power of storytelling

one that transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary

Joe Jackson has crafted a true American epic

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Franco makes a decision that will change his life—and even the history of Sicily—forever