Author Talk with Alexander Theroux

Join local author Alexander Theroux for a talk about his newest book Cape Cod Tales.

Cape Cod Tales, presents the stories of three fascinating but complicated nineteenth century Cape Codders. Meet Horatio Rock, a photographer from West Barnstable; Austin Paper, of Brewster, a teenage cook on the fishing vessel Belle of Medford in dangerous waters of the Atlantic; and an old-style carpenter, Jacob Scissors, hired to renovate a meetinghouse in the quaint village of Sandwich, the oldest town on this “narrow land.”

Alexander Theroux, who lives in West Barnstable, has taught literature at Harvard, Yale, and M.I.T., and is the author of 20 books, novels, essays, fables, and poetry.