Thursday, August 6, 2009

Giveaway - The Blue Star by Tony Earley

I am hosting my first giveaway thanks to Valerie and the Hachette Book Group. This book sounds exciting - I can't wait to read it!

Book Information (from publisher)

Seven years ago, readers everywhere fell in love with Jim Glass, the precocious ten-year-old at the heart of Tony Earley's bestseller Jim the Boy. Now a teenager, Jim returns in another tender and wise story of young love on the eve of World War Two.

Jim Glass has fallen in love, as only a teenage boy can fall in love, with his classmate Chrissie Steppe. Unfortunately, Chrissie is Bucky Bucklaw's girlfriend, and Bucky has joined the Navy on the eve of war. Jim vows to win Chrissie's heart in his absence, but the war makes high school less than a safe haven, and gives a young man's emotions a grown man's gravity.

With the uncanny insight into the well-intentioned heart that made Jim the Boy a favorite novel for thousands of readers, Tony Earley has fashioned another nuanced and unforgettable portrait of America in another time--making it again even realer than our own day.

This is a timeless and moving story of discovery, loss and growing up, proving why Tony Earley's writing "radiates with a largeness of heart" (Esquire).

About Tony Earley (from Publisher)

Tony Earley is the author of four books: Here We Are in Paradise, a collection of stories; the novel Jim the Boy; the personal essay collection Somehow Form a Family; and The Blue Star, a novel released in Spring, 2008. A winner of a National Magazine Award for fiction, he was named one of the twenty best writers of his generation by both Granta, in 1996, and The New Yorker in 1999. His fiction and/or nonfiction have appeared in Harper's, Esquire, The New Yorker, The Oxford American, The New York Times Book Review, Tin House, Best American Short Stories, New Stories from the South and many other magazines and anthologies.

He is a native of western North Carolina and a graduate of Warren Wilson College and The University of Alabama. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife and daughter, where he is the Samuel Milton Fleming Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.

Giveaway Details:

There are five copies of The Blue Star up for grabs. If you would like to enter this contest do any of the following:
1. Leave a comment on this post. You must include an email address in at least one of your comments. If I can't find a way to contact you I will draw another winner. (1 entry)

2. Blog about this giveaway or post about it on your sidebar. Leave a separate comment with a link to your post. (1 entry)

3. Become a follower or leave a comment that you already are a follower of this blog. (1 entry)

There are three ways to enter, but you must LEAVE A SEPARATE COMMENT for each one or they will not count. I will be using random.org to pick the winners from the comments.
This contest is only open to US and Canadian residents. We also can not ship books to P.O. addresses. The deadline for entry is midnight, Monday, August 31st.

Good luck!

24 comments:

  1. Please enter me in this giveaway! This book sounds excellent.

    suko95(at)gmail(dotcom)

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  2. I am already a follower of your blog, Laura. Please enter me in your giveaway!

    suko95(at)gmail(dotcom)

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  3. Laura, I will put this on the sidebar of my blog. : )

    Third time's the charm--I hope.

    suko95(at)gmail(dotcom)

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  4. Please enter me Laura!

    missremmeres@gmail.com

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  5. I'm also a follower :)

    missremmeres@gmail.com

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  6. Just wanted to let you know that I've awarded your blog the Heartfelt Award. Check out the post on my blog!

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  7. Would love to read this.
    rsgrandinetti@yahoo(dot)com

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  8. I'd love to read this - please include me in the giveaway!

    celialarsen(at)gmail(dot)com

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  9. I follow on Blogger

    celialarsen(at)gmail(dot)com

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  10. I'm posting this to my blog sidebar.

    Thanks!

    celialarsen(at)gmail(dot)com

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  11. I'd love to read this book


    madeleine444[at]gmail[dot]com

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  12. I am a follower


    madeleine444[at]gmail[dot]com

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  13. Hi laura..I really want to read this book. I am a follower. thanks

    dd DOT bookgoddess AT gmail DOT com

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  14. this sounds like an interesting coming-of-age story. although i'm not so sure i like the guy going after another guy's gal.

    vvb32 at yahoo.com

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  15. I would love to have this book, please count me in!
    Luvdaylilies at bellsouth dot net

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  16. I follow=)

    Luvdaylilies at bellsouth dot net

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  17. I think my boys would love this. Thanks for sharing it.

    s.mickelson at gmail dot com

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  18. Please add my name to the draw. The cover alone is enough to make me want to read it. Plus Mr. Earley is a fellow native of North Carolina. It has to be great!

    cameron.linda@Gmail.com

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  19. I am a new follower and would like to win this
    great book.

    cenya2 at hotmail dot com

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  20. I would love to read this snapshot of an era long passed... Please accept this as my entry. Thank you!

    Aliya D.
    aliyadaya(at)shaw(dot)ca

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  21. I've always been fascinated by WW2 and love reading books that take place during that time period. Please enter me.

    andie(dot)v107(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  22. I don't know how I missed this giveaway! Thanks for reminding me. Please enter me in as well.

    hmsgofita at hotmail dot com

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  23. I'm also a follower!

    hmsgofita at hotmail dot com

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