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</font><div align="center"><font size=4><b>Joseph Caldwell Tells What The
Pig Did in Ireland<br>
At The Yale Bookstore on March 3<br>
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What:</b> Joseph Caldwell reading from and signing copies of his novel,
<i>The Pig Did It<br>
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</i><b>When:</b> Monday, March 3, 2008 at 4:00 pm<br>
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<b>Where: </b>The Yale Bookstore, 77 Broadway, New Haven, CT<br>
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<b>About the Book:</b> <font face="Times New Roman, Times">What the pig
did--in Joseph Caldwell's charmingly romantic tale of an American in
contemporary Ireland--is create a ruckus, a rumpus, a disturbance . . .
utter pandemonium. Possibly the most obstreperous character in literature
since Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's <i>Ulysses, </i>Caldwell's pig
distracts everyone from his or her chosen mission. Aaron McCloud has come
to Ireland from New York City to walk the beach and pity himself for the
cold indifference of the young lady in his writing class he had chosen to
be his love. The pig will have none of that. Aaron's aunt Kitty McCloud,
a novelist, wants to get on with her bestselling business of correcting
the classics, at the moment Jaye Eyre, which in Kitty's version will end
with Rochester's throwing himself from the tower, not the madwoman's. The
pig will have not a big of that. What the pig eventually does is root up
in Aunt Kitty's vegetable garden evidence of a possible transgression
that each of the novel's three Irish charaacters is convinced the other
probably benefited from. How this hilarious mystery is resolved in
<b><i>The Pig Did It</i></b>--the first entry in Caldwell's forthcoming
Pig Trilogy--inspires both bitingly comic eloquence and a theatrically
colorful canvas depicting the brooding Irish land and seascape.
<i>Publisher's Weekly </i>praises how "Caldwell's shaggy pig story .
. . puts farcical doings into lilting language and provides a payoff that
is an unexpected as it is satisfying."<br>
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</font><b>About the Author: </b><font face="Times New Roman, Times">A
playwright and novelist whose previous books include <i>In Such Dark
Places, The Deer at the River, Under the Dog Star, The Uncle from Rome,
</i>and <i>Bread for the Baker's Child, </i><b>Joseph Caldwell</b>, who
attended Yale University School of Drama ('58), has been awarded the Rome
Prize for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He
lives in New York City and is completing <i>The Pig Comes to Dinner
</i>and <i>The Pig Enters Hog Heaven.<br>
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