[Yale-readings] Novelist Joseph Caldwell at Yale Bookstore on March 3

[Nancy Kuhl]

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>Contact: Richard G. Carlson, Events Coordinator
>The Yale Bookstore (203) 777-8440 ext 165
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>Joseph Caldwell Tells What The Pig Did in Ireland
>At The Yale Bookstore on March 3
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>What: Joseph Caldwell reading from and signing copies of his novel, 
>The Pig Did It
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>When: Monday, March 3, 2008 at 4:00 pm
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>Where: The Yale Bookstore, 77 Broadway, New Haven, CT
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>About the Book: 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 Ulysses, 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 The Pig Did It--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. Publisher's Weekly 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."
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>About the Author: A playwright and novelist whose previous books 
>include In Such Dark Places, The Deer at the River, Under the Dog 
>Star, The Uncle from Rome, and Bread for the Baker's Child, Joseph 
>Caldwell, 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 The 
>Pig Comes to Dinner and The Pig Enters Hog Heaven.
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