Cortez author C. Joseph Greaves, whose novel Tom & Lucky and George & Cokey Flo was a Wall Street Journal “Best Books of 2015” selection, was chosen one of three finalists for the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction.
Lucky & Tom is a novel of mobsters, madams and lawyers in Depression-era New York that centers on the 1936 vice prosecution of ganger Lucky Luciano by Thomas E. Dewey, an ambitious young attorney who would use the case as a springboard to a storied political career that, in 1948, nearly landed him the United States presidency.
Greaves’ co-finalists for the award are Kermit Roosevelt for his novel Allegiance and Attica Locke for her novel Pleasantville. The Harper Lee Prize will be awarded in September in conjunction with the 16th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington D.C.
The Sheridan Arts Foundation announces that tickets go on sale at noon today for two shows at the Sheridan Opera House, 110 N. Oak St., Telluride.
The first show is the Subdudes at 8 p.m. July 19. Tickets are $36-46. The second is comedians Jevin Smith and Jason Mewes with “Jay and Silent Bob Get Old” at 7 p.m. Dec. 16. Tickets are $40-50.
For more information, call 728-6363.
