Robert G. Penner Book Launch (The Dark King Swallows the World)

Name: Robert G. Penner Book Launch (The Dark King Swallows the World)
Start: 2024-10-25T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-10-25T20:00:00-05:00
Location: McNally Robinson Booksellers

Schedule

Fri Oct 25 2024 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

McNally Robinson Booksellers | Winnipeg, MB

Join Robert G. Penner for the launch of The Dark King Swallows the World (Radiant Press). Featuring a reading and a conversation hosted by Dr. Kenneth MacKendrick.
https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9781998926152/robert-g-penner/the-dark-king-swallows-the-world
The launch will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream: https://youtube.com/live/VX9fsGkj--E
Isolated and friendless in World War II Cornwall, Nora, a precocious American adolescent, loses her younger half-brother in a car crash. Overwhelmed by grief, Nora’s mother becomes involved with Olaf Winter, the self-professed necromancer Nora believes is responsible for the accident. Desperate to win back her mother’s love from the nefarious Mr. Winter, Nora is plunged into a world of faeries, giants, and homunculi. Ultimately, she travels to the land of the dead, where she confronts the dark king who rules that realm, all in an attempt to win back her half-brother, and help heal her mother’s broken heart. A novel in the tradition of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.
Author Robert G. Penner lives and works in Winnipeg. He is the author of Strange Labour, one of Publishers Weekly‘s Best Science Fiction Books of 2020. He has published numerous short stories in a wide range of speculative and literary journals under both his name and various pseudonyms. He was also the founding editor of the online science fiction zine Big Echo.