Award-winning local author P.J. Piccirillo will be on hand to sign copies of his historical novel Heartwood on APRIL 9, 2011 form 1-3 pm.
Set in north central Pennsylvania at the turn of the twentieth century, Heartwood is an inspiring and heart-rending novel that traces the intertwined lives of two men with common roots in the rugged timbering industry, but whose destinies and loves turn them against each other. Heartwood is a loving and careful preservation of a precious part of Pennsylvania history that has all but vanished.
Praise for Heartwood
"This story of place and a man’s search for significance amidst clashing worlds of humans and nature is more than the tragedy and triumph of Tobias Meier’s passage from woodsman to ostracized heir. Heartwood contemplates what is lost as civilization expands, natural places disappear and technology renders steadfast traditions obsolete."
- Ellipsis Magazine
Heartwood is an able, earnest, richly textured story set within a time and place that Piccirillo sees vividly.
- Syndicated newspaper columnist Dave Hurst
"If Eudora Welty is right that fiction depends for its life on place, then make room for PJ Piccirillo, whose wonderful debut novel captures with great sensitivity logging town life at the turn of the last century. Elegiac in nature, and epic in proportion, Heartwood deserves a large and grateful readership."
-Jack Driscoll, author of How Like an Angel
