Neal Stephenson -- "Polostan"
Category: Literary
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Friday, Oct 18, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Location
First Congregational
1128 Pine St
Details
Neal Stephenson will speak about and sign his new book, "Polostan: Volume One of Bomb Light," on Friday, October 18th at 6:30pm, at First Congregational Church (1128 Pine St. Boulder. Tickets for this event are $32 (plus tax a small processing fee) and are available on Eventbrite. Tickets include a hardcover copy of "Polostan," to be distributed at the event.
About the Book:
The first installment in Neal Stephenson’s Bomb Light cycle, "Polostan" follows the early life of the enigmatic Dawn Rae Bjornberg. Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn is raised in Leningrad after the Russian Revolution by her Russian father, a party line Leninist who re-christens her Aurora. She spends her early years in Russia but then grows up as a teenager in Montana, before being drawn into gunrunning and revolution in the streets of Washington, D.C., during the depths of the Great Depression. When a surprising revelation about her past puts her in the crosshairs of U.S. authorities, Dawn returns to Russia, where she is groomed as a spy by the organization that later becomes the KGB.
Set against the turbulent decades of the early twentieth century, "Polostan" is an inventive, richly detailed, and deeply entertaining historical epic, and the start of a captivating new series from Neal Stephenson.
IMPORTANT TICKETING AND EVENT INFORMATION
*Tickets are $32 (plus tax and a small processing fee) and include a hardcover copy of "Polostan," to be distributed at the event.
*This event will be at First Congregational Church (1128 Pine St. Boulder)
