Reading by Nino Ricci at Bridgewater State College October 9, 2008

Nino Ricci at Bridgewater State College

On Thursday, October 9, award-winning Canadian author Nino Ricci will read from his latest novel, The Origin of Species, at Bridgewater State College. Presented by the Canadian Studies Program, the event will be held at 2:00 p.m. in the John Joseph Moakley Center for Technological Applications. A reception will follow.

Nino Ricci's first novel, Lives of the Saints (1990), was an internationally acclaimed masterpiece, spending a stunning 75 weeks on The Globe and Mail's best-seller list. In Canada it won the Governor General's Award and the W.H. Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award, in England the Betty Trask Award and the Winnifred Holtby Prize, and in France the Prise Contrepoint Madrineaux.

The Origin of Species is Nino Ricci’s fifth novel. Set in Montreal in the 1980s, it tells the story of thirty-something Alex Fratarcangeli. By all accounts an otherwise unexceptional man, Alex is haunted by an extraordinary experience in the Galapagos Islands, the consequences of which threaten to upend the precarious balance of his ordinary life.

The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Susan Williams in the Canadian Studies Program at Bridgewater State College. Email [email protected] or telephone 508-531-2421.

Official Website: http://www.bridgew.edu/Canada/