Peter Ferry at Lake Forest Book Store
Date and Time
Friday Jun 26, 2015
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM CDT
June 26 at 6:00 p.m.
Location
Lake Forest Book Store
680 N. Western Ave.
Lake Forest, IL 60045
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Contact Information
Lake Forest Book Store
847-234-4420
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Description
Peter Ferry, author of "Old Heart" (Unbridled Books $16) Friday June 26 at 6:00 p.m. Register at Lake Forest Book Store 847-234-4420 Award-winning author Peter Ferry talks about his standout novel. Peter Ferry is a Chicago area teacher, editor and writer; he is the author of the 2008 novel "Travel Writing." He has written textbooks for Rand McNally and travel pieces for the "Chicago Tribune "and the "Chicago Sun-Times." He has won the Illinois Arts Council Literary Award for Short Fiction. He lives in Evanston, Illinois. Tom Johnson has turned 85 and has suffered a few events, though he knows his mind is sharp. His oldest son, who had Down Syndrome has died, and his remaining two children want to move him out of the homestead lake house and into a retirement home in town. What Tom wants to do is to find the only woman he ever loved, a woman he met in the Netherlands where he was stationed during World War II.