Two CANADIAN Books - DINNER WITH EDWARD & I M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS

USPA NEWS - - "Dinner With Edward, A Story Of An Unexpected Friendship" (Diner avec Edward) by Isabel VINCENT and Published by Presses de la Cité Editions. This is a Book / Memoirs. Isabel Vincent is a Canadian Journalist who has moved with her Husband and Daughter to New york City for Professional Reason.The First Time she agrees to have Dinner with Edward, she does it as a Favor to a Friend. His daughter worries that the 93-Year-Old is giving up on Life after the Death of Paula, his Wife of 69 years. Isabel Vincent knocks on the Door to his Apartment with the Lowest Possible Sense of Anticipation.

- "Dinner With Edward, A Story Of An Unexpected Friendship" (Diner avec Edward) by Isabel VINCENT and Published by Presses de la Cité Editions. This is a Book / Memoirs. Isabel Vincent is a Canadian Journalist who has moved with her Husband and Daughter to New york City for Professional Reason.The First Time she agrees to have Dinner with Edward, she does it as a Favor to a Friend. His daughter worries that the 93-Year-Old is giving up on Life after the Death of Paula, his Wife of 69 years. Isabel Vincent knocks on the Door to his Apartment with the Lowest Possible Sense of Anticipation.

A Former Foreign Correspondent, she is adjusting to being an Investigative Reporter at the New York Post. Her Husband hates New York and Tension at Home mounts as their Marriage falls apart. Edward never counsels her about her Marriage. His Love for his Deceased Wife was on Clear Display. He has Taped Photocopies of Paula´s Last Photo on Apartment Walls at Different Angles so that he could talk to her. He writes her Letters and Poems. Edward and Paula had been Aspiring Actors and Writers in New York, but never made it. He worked as a Welder and Tailor and she stayed Home with their Two Children. Scrapbooks containing Letters and Cards they´d sent each other over the years lined Apartment Shelves.... Food Lovers will swoon from the First Chapter and Opening Menu as Isabel Vincent begins to relish their Weekly Tête-à-Tête and Edward´s Handwritten French Recipes.

- "I'm Thinking Of Ending Things" (Je Sens Grandir Ma Peur) by Canadian Writer Iain REID and Published in FRANCE by Presses de la Cité Editions. The Teasing Title of Iain Reid's Debut Novel "I´m Thinking of Ending Things" posits a Number of Unsettling Questions.... "Sometimes a Thought is closer to Truth, to Reality, than an Action. You can say Anything, you can do Anything, but you can´t fake a Thought"

The Narrator, who remains Nameless throughout is, it appears, the One who wants to do the Ending. She has embarked on a Journey with her Newish Boyfriend Jake who is taking her to meet his Parents. Their Conversations are Warm and Witty and Normal but there's a Stack of Stuff going on in her Head which sets Alarm Bells ringing.... Named an NPR Best Book of the Year in 2016, “I´m Thinking of Ending Things“ examines the Fragility of the Psyche and the Limitations of Solitude. Oscar Winner Charlie Kaufman is set to Write and Direct a Film Adaptation of Iain Reid´s internationally Best Selling Novel “I´m Thinking of Ending Things“ for Netflix.

Ruby BIRD
http://www.portfolio.uspa24.com/
Yasmina BEDDOU
http://www.yasmina-beddou.uspa24.com/