{"id":139542,"date":"2024-05-23T11:14:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T16:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=139542"},"modified":"2024-05-23T11:14:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T16:14:55","slug":"square-books-presents-an-evening-with-greg-iles-for-southern-man-wednesday-may-29-2024-at-530-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/square-books-presents-an-evening-with-greg-iles-for-southern-man-wednesday-may-29-2024-at-530-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Square Books Presents: An Evening with Greg Iles for “Southern Man” Wednesday, May 29, 2024, at 5:30 pm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The hugely anticipated new Penn Cage novel from the bestselling author of the Natchez Burning\u00a0<\/em>trilogy and\u00a0Cemetery Road<\/em>, about a man\u2014and a town\u2014rocked by anarchy and tragedy, but unbowed in the fight to save those they love.<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Join Square Books<\/strong> in welcoming author Greg Iles<\/strong> for his new novel\u00a0Southern Man<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>The event will take place on\u00a0Wednesday, May 29, 2024, at 5:30 pm<\/strong> at Off Square Books<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author Talk Only \u2022 <\/strong>Reserve Signed First Edition here<\/a>. \u2022 <\/strong>Sorry, no personalization<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can’t make it?<\/strong>\u00a0Tune in virtually via\u00a0Facebook Live<\/a>.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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About the Book<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Fifteen years after the events of the Natchez Burning<\/em> trilogy, Penn Cage is alone. Nearly all his loved ones are dead, his old allies gone, and he carries a mortal secret that separates him from the world. But Penn\u2019s exile comes to an end when a brawl at a Mississippi rap festival triggers a bloody mass shooting\u2014one that nearly takes the life of his daughter Annie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the stunned cities of Natchez and Bienville reel, antebellum plantation homes continue to burn and the deadly attacks are claimed by a Black radical group as historic acts of justice. Panic sweeps through the tourist communities, driving them inexorably toward a race war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what might have been only a regional sideshow of the 2024 Presidential election explodes into national prominence, thanks to the stunning ascent of Robert E. Lee White, a Southern war hero who seizes the public imagination as a third-party candidate. Dubbed \u201cthe Tik-Tok Man,\u201d and funded by an eccentric Mississippi billionaire, Bobby White rides the glory of his Special Forces record to an unprecedented run at the White House\u2014one unseen since the campaign of H. Ross Perot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To triumph over the national party machines, Bobby evolves a plan of unimaginable daring. One fateful autumn weekend, with White set to declare his candidacy in all fifty states, the forces polarizing America line up against one another: Black vs. white, states vs. the federal government, democracy vs. Fascism. Teaming with his fearless daughter (now a civil rights lawyer) and a former Black Panther who spent most of his life in Parchman Prison, Penn tears into Bobby White\u2019s pursuit of the Presidency and ultimately risks a second Civil War to try to expose its motivation to the world, before the America of our Constitution slides into the abyss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Southern Man<\/em>, Greg Iles returns to the riveting style and historic depth that made the Natchez Burning trilogy a searing masterpiece and hurls the narrative fifteen years forward into our current moment\u2014where America itself teeters on the brink of anarchy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Author<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Greg Iles\u00a0has spent most of his life in Natchez, Mississippi<\/strong>. His first novel,\u00a0Spandau Phoenix<\/em>, was the first of many\u00a0New York Times\u00a0<\/em>bestsellers. His Natchez Burning\u00a0<\/em>trilogy continued the story of Penn Cage, the protagonist of\u00a0The Quiet Game, Turning Angel,\u00a0<\/em>and #1\u00a0New York Times\u00a0<\/em>bestseller\u00a0The Devil\u2019s Punchbowl<\/em>. Iles\u2019s novels have been made into films and published in more than thirty-five countries. He is a member of the lit-rock group The Rock Bottom Remainders, lives in Natchez with his wife, and his three children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Praise for\u00a0Southern Man<\/em><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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“This is a genuinely terrifying book because of its plausibility\u2014Iles perfectly captures the tinderbox that America is in the post-Trump era. . . .This is a perfectly done political thriller with genuine resonance. Astonishing.”  \u2014 Kirkus (starred review)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAn ambitious stand-alone thriller that is both an absorbing crime story and an in-depth exploration of grief, betrayal and corruption\u2026 Iles\u2019s latest calls to mind the late, great Southern novelist Pat Conroy. Like Conroy, Iles writes with passion, intensity and absolute commitment.\u201d \u2014 Washington Post<\/em> on Cemetery Road<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPure reading pleasure. This guy knows the deep south as well or better than any other novelist.\u201d  \u2014 Stephen King on Cemetery Road<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIles\u2026 has made Mississippi his own in the same way that James Lee Burke has claimed Cajun country and Michael Connelly has remapped contemporary Los Angeles\u2026 They will be talking about this one for a quite a while.\u201d \u2014 Booklist <\/em>(starred review) on Cemetery Road<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA sweeping tale of family dysfunction [and] sexually charged secrets.\u201d \u2014 Publishers Weekly<\/em> (starred review) on Cemetery Road<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is impossible to turn away. It\u2019s like binge-watching your favorite TV drama, and you don\u2019t dare take your eyes off the screen for fear of missing out on another revelation. Cemetery Road<\/em> is full of them.\u201d \u2014 Bookreporter.com<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cImagine William Faulkner and Stieg Larsson had a love child. Natchez Burning<\/em> combines the pace of Larsson\u2019s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo<\/em> with a Faulkneresque, bone-deep knowledge of Mississippi in all its beauty and racial torment.\u201d \u2014 AARP Magazine<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEvery single page of Natchez Burning<\/em> is a cliffhanger that will keep you devouring just one more chapter before you put it down to eat, work, or go to bed…. This ambitious, unique novel is the perfect marriage of a history lesson and a thriller.\u201d \u2014 Jodi Picoult<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIles carries it off with style, intelligence and passion…The Bone Tree<\/em> is filled with menace, betrayal, [and] unexpected plot twists. . . [and] is a very American epic-in-progress that leaves us waiting, none too patiently, for whatever revelations are still to come.\u201d \u2014 Washington Post<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cExtraordinary. . . . \u2018Great Expectations\u2019 transplanted to an American South laced with comparably gothic overtones. . . . The Bone Tree<\/em> establishes Iles as this generation\u2019s William Faulkner.\u201d \u2014 Providence Journal<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAbsolutely compelling.\u2026 A beautifully constructed story [and] some extremely fine writing.\u201d \u2014 Booklist<\/em> <\/em>(starred review) on The Bone Tree<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Books: <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Southern Man: A Novel (Penn Cage #7) (Hardcover)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Greg Iles<\/a>
$36.00
ISBN:<\/strong>\u00a09780062824691
Availability:<\/strong>\u00a0Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now
Published:<\/strong>\u00a0William Morrow – May 28th, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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