Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 06:42:47 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Fran Saunders Subject: Novel about birds MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For those of you who are interested in novels about birds, the author will be in College Park next week: John Gregory Brown's Audubon's Watch "Time flies very slow indeed, so much so that it looked as if it Stood Still, like the hawk that Poises in the air over its prey." - John James Audubon. These words are the seeds of a story that is a historical novel and murder mystery. Audubon's Watch tells of a fateful meeting between the ornithologist John James Audubon and a fictional physician, Emile Gautreaux. In the early 1820s, the real-life Audubon had just conceived his grand design to draw all of the birds of North America. Gautreaux arrives with his wife, Myra, to visit a plantation owner. Myra collapses and dies. Audubon sits with Gautreaux through a night-long vigil over his wife's dead body as he reveals that he believes his wife's death to be not an accident but a murder. He implores Audubon to help him find who is responsible. However, Audubon possesses a secret about Gautreaux's beautiful wife that he cannot confess. Brown is the author of Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery. Tuesday, October 2 7:00 pm Vertigo Books 7346 Baltimore Ave. College Park Shopping Center College Park MD 20740 301-779-9300 Hours M-F 10-8 Sat 10-7 Sun 12-5 Fran Saunders MOS State Web Site Director http://www.MDBirds.org Silver Spring, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================