Wednesday, November 5, 2003
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Wednesday, November 5, 2003 |
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Williams to speak at library John M. Williams, a winner of the Georgia Author of the Year Award for First Novel, will speak in the Floy Farr Room of the Peachtree City Library Sunday, Nov. 9, at 2 p.m. There will be copies of the novel, “Lake Moon,” available for signing. Of “Lake Moon,” Jaclyn Weldon White said, “John Williams takes an honest unsentimental look back at the turbulent Atlanta music scene of the 1970s. Several voices combine to tell this spellbinding story of dreames, greed and loss, of choices made and consequences met. Filling his book with rich characters and pitch-perfect dialogue, Williams proves himself to be a confident, superior writer.” “Lake Moon” is the story of a band and its young members in their quest for recognition and fulfillment. Set in the moral and social turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s in Georgia, the novel depicts the characters struggle against self doubt, naivete, and addiction in their pursuit of the calling of music. This is also the story of the relationship between music and musician, between youth and belonging, between commerce and art, between self-loathing and self-awareness. “The book is mainly written in dialogue but so convincing that it almost feels like eavesdropping,” according to statement by the library. “A picture of regret and longing and the unchartable and convuluted paths life can take without our being aware of it develops.” Williams is an associate professor of English at LaGrange College. |
