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The Bar at Twilight

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The Bar at Twilight by Frederic Tuten is a contemplative tale that explores themes of love, memory, and longing. Set in a charming cafΓ©, an ensemble of vivid characters shares their rich, diverse stories, weaving a tapestry of shared experiences and personal introspection. The narrative delves into the complex dance of human interactions, capturing the beauty and fragility of connections.
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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate a blend of imaginative storytelling and introspective character exploration. Frederic Tuten weaves a narrative that artfully combines reality with the fantastical, engaging readers who relish thought-provoking fiction with a touch of the surreal.

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The Bar at Twilight

An incomparable storyteller serves up an enchanting concoction of art, love, and longing.

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  • Significant bound galley mailing to media and booksellers, including bound galley promotional offer through the American Booksellers Association’s β€œAdvance Access” program. Additional digital review copy distribution to media, booksellers, and librarians through Edelweiss
  • National print, public radio, and online media campaigns
  • Stories from the collection have appeared in BOMB, Conjunctions, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, as well as O. Henry and Pushcart Prize anthologies
  • Publication coincides with National Short Story Month
  • Title story is being adapted as a play to be staged at the Manchester International Festival in 2023
  • Author appearances in New York, NY
  • Simultaneous eBook publication and promotion
  • Postcards available
  • Early outreach and giveaways through LibraryThing
  • Promotion through BLP’s social media channels and website: www.blpress.org
  • Promotion through the author’s social media channels, including Instagram (@frederictuten) and Facebook (@ftuten), and the author’s website: https://frederictuten.com/
  • Editor: Erika Goldman
  • Agent: Gloria Loomis and Julia Masnik of Watkins/Loomis Agency
  • Cover: designed by Alban Fischer featuring art by Frederic Tuten
  • Marketing and publicity efforts supported by Molly Mikolowski of A Literary Light
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    NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE

    An incomparable storyteller serves up an enchanting concoction of art, love, and longing.

    In fifteen masterful stories, Frederic Tuten entertains questions of existential magnitude, pervasive yearning, and the creative impulse. A wealthy older woman reflects on her relationship with her drowned husband, a painter, as she awaits her own watery demise. An exhausted artist, feeling stuck, reads a book of criticism about allegory and symbolism before tossing her paintings out the window. Writing a book about the lives of artists he admiresβ€”Cezanne, Monet, Rousseauβ€”a man imagines how each vignette could be a life lesson for his wife, the artist he perhaps admires the most.

    Whether set in Tuten's beloved Lower East Side, Rome's Borghese Gardens, or a French seaside resort, these stories shift seamlessly between the poignancy of memory and the logic of fairytales or dreams, demonstrating Tuten's exceptional ability to transmute his passion for art and life to the page.

    The Bar at Twilight showcases his unique talent for weaving evocative tales filled with deep emotional resonance.

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    The Bar at Twilight has received glowing reviews, noted for its intoxicating and engrossing prose. Critics praise Frederic Tuten for his elegant, descriptive, and often humorous writing style. The book is regarded as generous and soulful, blending fables with strikingly fresh stories, cementing Tuten’s reputation as a distinctive literary artist.

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    Book Details

    INFORMATION

    ISBN: 9781954276031

    Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press

    Format: Paperback / softback

    Date Published: 23 June 2022

    Country: United States

    Imprint: Bellevue Literary Press

    Illustration: Illustrations

    Audience: General / adult

    DIMENSIONS

    Width: 127.0mm

    Height: 190.0mm

    Weight: 0g

    Pages: 288

    About the Author

    Frederic Tuten is the award-winning author of five novels, the memoir My Young Life, and two short story collections, Self-Portraits: Fictions and The Bar at Twilight. Among other honors, Tuten has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Distinguished Writing. He lives in New York.

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