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For Reservations, contact your travel professional or 1.800.7.CUNARD
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M827A:Westbound Transatlantic Crossing
July 16, 2008 - July 22, 2008
Queen Mary 2 - 6 days
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Michael Edwards
Michael Donald Edwards, born in Australia, is the Producing Artistic Director of Sarasota’s Asolo Repertory Theatre, the leading resident theatre company of the state of Florida, where he has directed Amadeus, Nobody Don’t Like Yogi, Darwin in Malibu, Equus, and the world premiere of a new musical of A Tale of Two Cities which is opening on Broadway in September 2008.
Prior to his time at Asolo Rep, he was the Associate Artistic Director for Syracuse Stage in New York, and had also served as Artistic Director of Shakespeare Santa Cruz in California for six years. Mr. Edwards has directed at Indiana Repertory Theatre; Geva Theatre; Syracuse Stage; The Shakespeare Theatre; San Jose Rep; Opera San Jose; the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; the Old Globe in San Diego; Virginia Stage Company; the Virginia Opera; the State Theatre of South Australia; Opera Australia; Victoria State Opera; and the Metropolitan Opera. He has received a Garland Award for Best Direction for his production of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part I at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. His productions of Shopping and F***ing in San Francisco and Los Angeles also received Garland Awards for Best Production and Best Ensemble. He received a Drama Logue Award for Best Direction for his production of Richard III at Shakespeare Santa Cruz, and his production of Transgressor in Los Angeles also received Drama Logue Awards for Best Play and Best Direction.
He has also been a Professor of Theatre at the University of California Santa Cruz, Syracuse University, and has taught at the Julliard School, Victorian College of the Arts, and the Israeli Vocal Arts Institute.
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On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan's new novella, On Chesil Beach brilliantly illuminates the collision of sexual longing, deep-seated fears and romantic fantasy in his unforgettable, emotionally engaging new novel. On Chesil Beach. From the precise and intimate depiction of two young lovers eager to rise above the hurts and confusion of the past, to the touching story of how their unexpressed misunderstandings and fears shape the rest of their lives. On Chesil Beach is an extraordinary novel that brilliantly, movingly shows us how the entire course of a life can be changed – by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.
Ian McEwan was born on 21 June in 1948 in Aldershot, Hampshire, England. A student at Sussex University, after graduating, he became the first student on the MA Creative Writing course established at the University of East Anglia by Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation, Hamburg, in 1999. He was awarded a CBE in 2000. Ian McEwan lives in London. His latest novel is On Chesil Beach (2007), shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Ian McEwan, the #1 bestselling author of Saturday and Atonement He is currently writing the libretto to For You, a new opera about an ageing conductor/composer, with music by Michael Berkeley.
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Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
Jacob Jankowski is pushing 90 and wallowing in a nursing home, abandoned by his family and surrounded by aged octogenarians who irk him with their senility. Sara Gruen’s mesmerizing new novel is a compelling story of a man who lies in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, lucidness and dreams. Surprising, poignant and funny, Water for Elephants is that rare novel with a story so engrossing; one is reluctant to put it down.
Sara Gruen lives with her husband and three children in an environmentalist community outside of Chicago. An award-winning technical writer, she made her fiction debut in 2004 with Riding Lessons, followed by Flying Changes. Water for Elephants is her third novel.
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