Gary Delanoeye Book Signing

Gary Delanoeye

Tuesday, October 24th at 7pm

Come in for an eccentric evening with local Gary Delanoeye as he signs his second quirky novel, Letters from the Outs, at Chaucer’s Bookstore.

First there was Checking in at the Crowbar Hotel and readers were introduced to Harly, Rage, the hookers, and Sammy – characters that make the Crowbar Hotel (a juvenile detention facility) buzz with life, intrigue, pathos, and humor. The “next novel” is here: Letters from the Outs with more young adults who have come to mend their ways.

Letters from the Outs picks up where Checking in at the Crowbar Hotel left off. It is also a humorous, and sometimes poignant, look at young adults attending high school in a correctional facility. The characters emerge as resourceful, practical and once in a while, a little twisted! At times, the faculty and staff are as outrageous as the kids! As an educator, Gary was able to draw upon recollections of his student, events, dramas and traumas to create this fictional account of the Crowbar Hotel… popular slang for prisons and jails.

Gary is also a volunteer naturalist and does photo identification of whales on local whale-watching boats. Gary has enjoyed living on the California Coast (Carpinteria) with his wife and their 3 cats. The perspective of time, experience and the publication of Crowbar have enabled him to recall and write about a whole new bunch of characters. They are all there, in the pages of Letters from the Outs.