# Event Details

- **Event Name**: An Evening In Conversation With Sean Michaels
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 12 Nov, 2019 at 07:00 pm – Tue, 12 Nov, 2019 at 09:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Bookmark and UPEI Winter's Tales Reading Series are pleased to present an evening with Canadian award winning author, Sean Michaels discussing his new book, The Wagers. Come out and enjoy a delightful evening of reading and conversation between Michael and PEI Writers’ Guild Past President, Keith Burgoyne.

The event will take place on Tuesday, November 12th at 7 PM at the Confederation Center Art Gallery, 145 Richmond St, Charlottetown. This is a free event and everyone is invited. 
 
Scotiabank Giller-winner Sean Michaels is back with his widely anticipated second novel, The Wagers, a deeply satisfying story of long odds, magical heists and the dizzying gamble of life. Where does luck come from? What is it worth? And how much of it do you need to be happy?

Theo Potiris is a grocer and a comedian who never repeats his jokes. After 15 years of open mikes, he's still waiting for his break--bicycling to the comedy club at night, stacking plums at his family's grand and ramshackle supermarket by day. His girlfriend is halfway around the world, searching for enlightenment with a patron who happens to be the richest man on Earth, and when two other loved-ones get struck by bolts from the blue, Theo decides he can't keep chasing his old dreams any longer. He resolves to trade his wishes in, pursuing a bigger score.
     
Here Sean Michaels' novel takes a surprise left turn, away from the price of milk and into a shabby, beautiful, imaginary Montreal where peacocks strut on street corners and gamblers bet on sunny days. Theo uncovers a mysterious association of sports-obsessed mathematicians, The Rabbit's Foot, which is turning probability into riches, and the vigilante No Name Gang, who steal luck from those who have taken more than their fair share. Bursting with sheer story-telling pleasure and stylish prose, The Wagers carries you along on wave after wave of invention--a literary motorcycle chase that soon has you wondering about the randomness of good fortune and all the ways we choose to wage our lives.

SEAN MICHAELS is a novelist, short-story writer and critic. Born in Stirling, Scotland, and raised in Ottawa, he eventually settled in Montreal, where he founded the pioneering music blog Said the Gramophone. His award-winning writing has also appeared in The Observer, McSweeney's, The Guardian, Pitchfork, Maisonneuve, and The Globe and Mail. Sean's debut novel, Us Conductors, received the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the QWF Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and was nominated for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the Kirkus Prize for Fiction, the International DUBLIN Literary Award, and (in translation) the Prix des libraires de Quebec. He enjoys cold water, warm madeleines and songs with colours in their titles..
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/charlottetown/an-evening-in-conversation-with-sean-michaels/200018278202727
- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Comedy, Entertainment, Festivals, Sports
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Charlottetown
- **state**: PE
- **country**: Canada
- **location**: Confederation Centre Art Gallery
- **lat**: 46.234527772864
- **long**: -63.127239499635
- **full address**: Confederation Centre Art Gallery, 145 Richmond Street, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island C1A 1J1, Canada

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is An Evening In Conversation With Sean Michaels being held?
  - **A:** An Evening In Conversation With Sean Michaels takes place on Tue, 12 Nov, 2019 at 07:00 pm to Tue, 12 Nov, 2019 at 09:00 pm at Confederation Centre Art Gallery, 145 Richmond Street, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island C1A 1J1, Canada.

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