Mon 10/21 @ 7PM
There’s been a trend in recent years of novels that take the actual facts of a famous person’s life and fictionalize them, imagining what might have gone on behind those facts. Michigan-based author Caitlin Horrocks’ latest book The Vexations is in this genre.
She takes what’s known about the life of French composer Erik Satie (1866-1925), one of the pioneers of avant-garde music trends such as minimalism, and weaves a story around them, set in the creative ferment of fin de siècle Paris. It fleshes out his difficult relationships with family and friends, made tenuous by his unstable personality and his heavy drinking which ultimately killed him.
Horrocks will be at Mac’s Back on Coventry to read from the book and sign copies. In addition, there will be a live performance of Satie’s Gnossiennes.
It’s free and open to all.
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