Be at the front of the line for this year's hottest read.
Gibsons and District Public Library announces the launch of its first Coast-wide book club, One Book on the Coast, with Andrew Pyper's The Wildfire Season. Readers from Langdale to Earl's Cove will be enthralled by Canadian author Pyper's latest national blockbuster. "One Book on the Coast is a Gibsons library initiative that will have as many people as possible discussing one good book at the same time," said chief librarian Michelle Southam. "Love it, hate it, all you need to do is read it."
Pyper's first novel, Lost Girls, was a Globe and Mail notable book selection in 1999 as well as a notable book selection in the New York Times Book Review (2000) and the London Evening Standard (2000). The novel won the Arthur Ellis Award for best first novel, and the film rights were sold to Jersey Films, the makers of Pulp Fiction and Erin Brockovich. His second novel, The Trade Mission, was called brilliant by the New York Times Book Review and remarkable and compelling by The London Times. It was elected by Globe and Mail as one of the ten best books of 2002.
Pyper's much anticipated third novel, The Wildfire Season, is set in a distant outpost in the Yukon, buried deep within the last true wilderness of the North American continent. Both adventure and quest for belonging, the novel weaves three storylines an ill-fated grizzly hunt, an uncontrollable forest fire and a wrenching love affair into a flame capable of both healing and scarring, turning some to heroes and others to ash. The Wildfire Season has been optioned for adaptation to film by L.A.-based producer Chris Moore. Moore is the producer behind more than 20 major feature films and TV projects, including the Academy Award-winning Good Will Hunting.
Multiple copies of The Wildfire Season are available at both Gibsons and Sechelt libraries. Reserve yours now at www.gdpl.scrd.bc.ca or call the Gibsons Library at 604-886-2130 or Sechelt Library at 604-885-3260.
