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SUMMARY:“World Pacific” with Peter Mann
DESCRIPTION:Peter Mann\, a past Writer-in-Resident at the Hemingway House w
 ith The Community Library\, returns to discuss his new novel: World Pacific
 \, which he worked on\, in part\, while in residency in Ketchum in 2023.\\n
 \\nA darkly comic novel of intrigue\, adventure\, and the perils of self-in
 vention from the author of The Torqued Man\, set in San Francisco and the 
 Asian Pacific during the outbreak of the Second World War.\\n\\nIn 1939\, j
 ust as the clouds of war are gathering\, Richard Halifax—boys' adventure 
 writer of manly bravado and the breeziest of prose styles—vanishes in the
  Pacific. Halifax was attempting to sail a Chinese junk from Hong Kong to S
 an Francisco as part of the World’s Fair festivities on Treasure Island. 
 But while his disappearance upends the lives of those left in his wake back
  home\, both his machinations and his letters to his young readers live on.
 \\n\\nHildegard Rauch\, an émigré painter and the daughter of Germany’s
  greatest living writer in exile\, finds her twin brother in a coma after a
 n attempted suicide. He left a mysterious note that sends her on a search f
 or the truth about her brother’s relationship with Richard Halifax and th
 e dangerous secret he entrusted to the writer before his voyage.\\n\\nSimon
  Faulk\, a British intelligence officer\, has been assigned to ferret out N
 azi spies in California. He learns of the arrival of a mysterious American 
 agent from across the Pacific\, part of a joint German-Japanese operation.\
 \n\\nTold in the alternating voices of these three characters\, set against
  the growing threat of another world war and a World’s Fair dedicated to 
 peace\, World Pacific is a madcap quixotic tale that explores the many form
 s of shipwreck\, exile\, betrayal\, and the stories we tell ourselves in th
 e fight to stay afloat.
URL:https://visitsunvalley.com/events/world-pacific-with-peter-mann/
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