Museum Musings Book Club Featuring William Zink
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Monday, Mar 4, 2024 6pm - 8:30pm
Location
Hower House Museum
60 Fir Hill
Details
Join us for a talk by local author, William Zink.
It's the 1980s. Hard times have hit cities like Detroit, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland. The youth of America, running on the fumes of a waning prosperity, seek refuge in dance clubs where New Wave music carries them away.
Akron, Ohio, once a boomtown, staggers forward to face the stark reality of fleeing jobs and empty factories. Freddie Beck, a budding young photographer, dreams of a way out. Alternating between shooting gigs by day and dancing to Blondie, Billy Idol, and the B-52’s at night, he is presented with the opportunity of a lifetime, but taking it might cost more than he’s willing to pay.
A saga of blood brothers — one black and one white — Zink presents a multi-layered human interest story singular to what we now call the Rust Belt, yet universal in its portrayal of youthful hubris and fragility.
Courtesy of Amazon.
About the author:
William Zink’s novels have been praised by Andrei Codrescu, Booklist, The Main Street Rag, David Giffels, Donald Ray Pollock, and many others. His novel, Ohio River Dialogues, was a finalist for the Ohioana Fiction Award.
(courtesy of Denison University Bookstore)
Interview with William Zink can be found here.
Call us to make your reservations: 330.972.6909 Please feel free to leave a message a we will return your call. (Reservations are encouraged but not required.)
Free for HHM Guild members with current membership; $8 special price for our HHM guests! (If you decide to join the HHM Guild this evening, you will not have to pay the door charge.)
Limited seating, light refreshments served; free onsite parking for guests.
