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GIVEAWAY: 5 copies of The Blue Star by Tony Earley

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Hello all, I’ve got 5 copies of The Blue Star by Tony Earley up for grabs courtesy of Valerie at Hachette Book Group. This book sounds quite good although I haven’t read it myself. My tbr pile is big enough right now without adding to it. So, here’s a bit about the book from Hachette…

Seven years ago, readers everywhere fell in love with Jim Glass, the precocious ten-year-old at the heart of Tony Earley’s bestseller Jim the Boy. Now a teenager, Jim returns in another tender and wise story of young love on the eve of World War Two.

Jim Glass has fallen in love, as only a teenage boy can fall in love, with his classmate Chrissie Steppe. Unfortunately, Chrissie is Bucky Bucklaw’s girlfriend, and Bucky has joined the Navy on the eve of war. Jim vows to win Chrissie’s heart in his absence, but the war makes high school less than a safe haven, and gives a young man’s emotions a grown man’s gravity.

With the uncanny insight into the well-intentioned heart that made Jim the Boy a favorite novel for thousands of readers, Tony Earley has fashioned another nuanced and unforgettable portrait of America in another time–making it again even realer than our own day.

This is a timeless and moving story of discovery, loss and growing up, proving why Tony Earley’s writing “radiates with a largeness of heart” (Esquire).

About the Author

Tony Earley is the author of four books: Here We Are in Paradise, a collection of stories; the novel Jim the Boy; the personal essay collection Somehow Form a Family; and The Blue Star, a novel released in Spring, 2008. A winner of a National Magazine Award for fiction, he was named one of the twenty best writers of his generation by both Granta, in 1996, and The New Yorker in 1999. His fiction and/or nonfiction have appeared in Harper’s, Esquire, The New Yorker, The Oxford American, The New York Times Book Review, Tin House, Best American Short Stories, New Stories from the South and many other magazines and anthologies.

He is a native of western North Carolina and a graduate of Warren Wilson College and The University of Alabama. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife and daughter, where he is the Samuel Milton Fleming Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.

Click here for an Interview with Tony Earley
Click here to read a Chapter Excerpt

GIVEAWAY DETAILS:

What do you need to do to enter…

  • For 1 entry leave me a comment with a way to contact you.
  • For 2 entries follow my blog. If you already do, thanks, and please tell me. I’m not as young as I used to be and I don’t always remember everyone. lol.
  • For 3 entries blog or tweet this giveaway.

The giveaway is open to US and Canadian residents only (no PO boxes). I will draw for the winners on Sunday August 16, 2009.

Good luck everyone! Be sure to check out my other giveaways on my sidebars!

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  3. Oh, please throw my name into the hat. Thanks for the great giveaway. milou2ster(at)gmail.com

  4. I'm game! Could use some insight on how boys think since I have one growing up in my household!

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  25. This book looks really interesting; please enter me. Thank you!

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  26. And I follow your blog–thanks again!

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  36. I just read a chapter excerpt and I would love to read this book. Thanks for this giveaway and please count me in

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  70. This sounds like an awesome book! Please enter me.

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