Wednesday, February 10, 2010

giveaway: corked

Thanks to Hachette, I get to offer up five copies of Kathryn Borel's newly released memoir, Corked.

This is what Publishers Weekly says about the book:
"In 2005, 20-something Canadian Borel and her 60-something French-born hotelier father set out by car on a days-long French wine safari. Borel, who works at the Canadian Broadcasting Company, desired a deeper connection to her father, but was also seeking escape from both the aftermath of a recent breakup and slightly older memories of a fatal car accident for which she bore responsibility. The trip's early stages were strained by travel sickness and father-daughter bickering, and as the abundantly detailed tour improved and progressed, the shadow of her father and his mortality fell ever sharper, if sometimes self-consciously. Borel's father emerges as a storytelling curmudgeon with a penchant for public humiliations who instinctively retreats into inappropriate humor; the narrator, meanwhile, comes across as emotional if not downright maudlin, and candid if not completely narcissistic. She lacks her father's knowledge of wine, a shortfall she covers with seemingly childish behavior. But then her wine-tasting experiences lead Borel to genuine breakthroughs, making her more confident and, in effect, bringing her relationship with her father to a breaking point. The narrative ends in a reconciliation that, like the whole book, is refreshingly unsentimental, grounded, perhaps to an extreme, in flashes of candor and humor."

The rules: Enter by leaving a comment to this post with your email (if I can't contact you, you can't win). You can gain additional entries by leaving separate comments letting me know that you're a follower or have posted a link to the giveaway on your site. The deadline to enter is 11:59pm Pacific on February 27. Winners will be selected at random. Hachette is only able to send this book to US residents.

15 comments:

  1. I'm the first to enter! :) Thanks for hosting a great giveaway!

    heather y
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  2. I'm also a subscriber... thanks!

    heather y
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  3. Id love to win this! the book sounds amazing!
    steph.rutledge@gmail.com

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  4. sounds like a good read!

    alysia75@aol.com

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  5. I'd love to read this book! Thanks!

    aikychien at yahoo dot com

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  6. I subscribed via Google reader.

    aikychien at yahoo dot com

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  7. I would love to read this! :)

    misusedinnocence@aol.com

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  8. This sounds like a good book!

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  9. please enter me
    spynaert@gmail.com

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  10. I gave up wine for lent...now all I can do is read about it.

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  11. It does sound like an interesting book, plus the father/daughter relationship.
    Thanks.
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  12. I follow via google reader.
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  13. I'd love to read this book! :)
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