Congratulations to Shari D, Cynthiia M, Deb, Margaret, and Deborah Wellenstein!
Thank you to everyone who entered!
Off to email the winners. You have 48 hours to respond with your info.
(I used this random number generator so I could pick 5 at once.)
Thanks again!
Meet Kathryn Borel, bon vivant and undutiful daughter. Now meet her father, Philippe, former chef, eccentric genius, and wine aficionado extraordinaire. Kathryn is like her father in every way but one: she’s totally ignorant when it comes to wine. And although Philippe has devoted untold parenting hours to delivering impassioned oenological orations, she has managed to remain unenlightened. But after an accident and a death, Kathryn realizes that by shutting herself off to her father’s greatest passion, she will never really know him.
Blurbs from Kathryn Borel’s website:
“’Corked’ is a fevered road-trip that takes us deep into the
heart of family mystery, emotional thirst and, in luscious
counterpoint, the vineyards of southern France. Kathryn
Borel writes with unsentimental, unsparing insight about
the distant, inscrutable father traveling beside her, and
past mistakes she is trying to reconcile. She is a caustically
witty companion, who deftly describes the suckerpunches
of a father-daughter relationship, and always spots the joke
inside despair and the tenderness within calamity. The
company of Borel Jr and Sr, sipping, spewing and spatting
their way across France is heart-wrenching and hysterical.”
–Leanne Shapton, author of ‘Was She Pretty?’ &
‘Important Artifacts and Personal Property from
the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris,
Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry’
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“This totally lovely and laugh-out-loud hilarious book marks
the arrival of an auspicious new comic voice. Her metaphors
are like no one’s. I chug-a-lugged, and misted up at the end.
I’m going with Kevin Kline as the father, and Ellen Page to star.”
–Henry Alford, author of ‘How to Live: A Search for Wisdom
from Old People (While They Are Still on This Earth)’
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“Kathryn Borel’s fresh, loud and hilarious voice carries
the reader through the hallowed winegrowing regions of France
with the same unique energy, irreverence and honesty she
uses to explore her volatile father’s soul, psyche and love for
armpit treasures. A must-read for anyone who has ever shared
a bottle of wine (corked or otherwise) with a larger-than-life-
parent … anyone with a beautifully sick sense of humour and
a serious love-hate relationship with the universe.”
—Ibi Kaslik, New York Times bestselling author of ‘Skinny’
•
“If you would like to know what you look like, you bedraggled,
devoted daughters of men with big personalities, pick up this
mirror. It’s a fun-house mirror. And it’s all reflected here—the
frustration, the love, the bewilderment—in prose that is vintage
Borel: colorful, manic, sensitive, twisted, brilliant and brave.”
—Sheila Heti, author of ‘Ticknor’ & ‘The Middle Stories’
You can download chapter 1 on her website!
I have a copy of Corked to giveaway to five of my lucky readers!
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Giveaway ends on 2/15/10 at 11:59 PM CST. Only US/Canadian entries. Winner will be chosen by random number generator. Winner will be emailed and must respond within 48 hours or an alternate winner will be chosen.
I have not received anything as of the time of posting for this giveaway, though I will be receiving the book to review.
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Sounds like a cool read. My favorite author for the moment is Jodi Piccoult.
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My favourite author is Joy Fielding.
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My favorite author is Mary Higgins Clark.
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So hard to pick just one favorite author. I enjoy J.D.Robb; Nicholas Sparks; Clive Cussler; Nicole Seitz to name a few….
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How could I possibly pick just one? For now, let’s say Stephen King. Thanks!
Stephen King, thanks.
Right now my favorite is Danielle Steel
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I have many favorite authors. Steven King is one – just finished “The Dome” and loved it.
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I love the classics so I have to pick Daniel Defoe.
My current favorite author is Clive Cussler.
I have many favorite authors, but currently my favorite is Janet Evanovich.
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It’s hard to pick just one! For the moment, I’m loving Nicholas Sparks. I used to not be too impressed by him, but lately I’ve been in a romantic mood.
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OMG! That is a weird little critter on their background.
He is so ugly that he is cute…ya know what I mean.
Is it an anteater?
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