Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Spotlight and Book Giveaway: FOLLOW ME by Joanna Scott

CLOSED.
Thanks to the generous folks at
Hachette Book Group,
I have been authorized to
 give away three (3) copies of
FOLLOW ME
by Joanna Scott.

Rules for entering this giveaway
are at the bottom of this post.



Publisher: Back Bay Books
Category: Fiction
Format: Trade Paperback
Publish Date: 7/29/2010
Price: $14.99/$17.99
ISBN: 9780316051682
Pages: 448
Size: 5-1/2" x 8-1/4"

Description (from the publisher):
On a summer day in 1946 Sally Werner, the precocious young daughter of hardscrabble Pennsylvania farmers, secretly accepts her cousin's invitation to ride his new motorcycle. Like so much of what follows in Sally's life, it's an impulsive decision with dramatic and far-reaching consequences. Soon she abandons her home to begin a daring journey of self-creation, the truth of which she entrusts only with her granddaughter and namesake, six decades later. But when young Sally's father--a man she has never known--enters her life and offers another story altogether, she must uncover the truth of her grandmother's secret history.

Boldly rendered and beautifully told, in FOLLOW ME Joanna Scott has crafted a paean to the American tradition of re-invention and a sweeping saga of timeless and tender storytelling.

Click here to access the Reading Group Guide.



About the author (from the publisher):
Joanna Scott is the author of nine books, including The Manikin, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Various Antidotes and Arrogance, which were both finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award; and the critically acclaimed Make Believe, Tourmaline, and Liberation. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Award, she lives with her family in upstate New York.

RULES FOR ENTERING THE GIVEAWAY:

• Leave a comment on this post telling me you would like to win. Include an email address with your comment so that I can contact you if you do win. Use a spam-thwarting format such as geebee.reads AT gmail DOT com or geebee.reads [at] gmail [dot] com

You must leave an email address in order to qualify. If I can't contact you, you can't win!

• You can earn an extra entry by being or becoming a Follower or Subscriber of this blog and telling me about it in a separate comment.

• Blog about this contest and provide me with the link to the post in a separate comment, and I'll give you yet another entry.

• Tweeting about this contest and providing me the link in a separate comment will get you one more entry. I've added a Retweet button at the bottom of every post.

• Stumble this blog, Digg it, or Technorati Fave it, whatever, and leave a separate comment for another entry.

• Winners must provide a U.S. or Canadian street address. Hachette is unable to deliver to P.O. Boxes.

Deadline for entry is 11:59 p.m. EST on Friday, August 20, 2010.

• Winners will have 48 hours to respond to my email announcing that they have won; if I don't hear from a winner, I will draw another name.

• Winners are determined using the sequence generator at Random.org.

Thank you to Valerie
at Hachette Book Group
for making this giveaway possible.

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!
THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED.

111 comments:

PoCoKat said...

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librarypat said...

Sounds like a most interesting book. It is sometimes hard to tell what is really true in family lore. Would you believe a father who hadn't been around or the grandmother who you know and love.
I'd love to win this book.

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Autumn said...

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Colleen Turner said...

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Nikki in Niagara said...

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Estrella Azul said...

Thanks for the chance, I'd love to win this book :)

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Estrella Azul said...

I follow the blog through Google Reager

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I also follow the blog on FB's networked blogs (not sure if that qualifies too, but thought I'd let you know :) )

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Cindy W. said...

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Smiles,
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Cindy W. said...

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Wonderland (TC) said...

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Anonymous said...

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grannyvon said...

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grannyvon said...

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