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Author Terry Stanfill will read from, discuss and sign copies of her first novel, "The Blood Remembers."
Terry Stanfill will discuss and read from her first novel, about a contemporary woman's international and trans-temporal quest, at the Friends of the USC Libraries' November 13 Literary Luncheon.
Stanfill's novel, "The Blood Remembers," was a finalist in the category of general fiction category in the Independent Publishers Award 2002 competition.
The luncheon, by reservation only, will take place in the courtyard of the USC Doheny Library, with check-in beginning at 11:30 a.m. Admission is $35. Following lunch Stanfill will read from her book and answer questions beginning at 1 p.m. This reading is free and open to the public. She will sign books from 2 to 3 p.m.
Stanfill, an international representative of the famous English auction house Christie's, is vice president of Save Venice, Inc, and has received awards from the President of Italy for her efforts to preserve the endangered city. She is a resident of San Marino, and is a reader and member of the board of overseers of the Huntington Library.
Stanfill is the wife of Dennis Stanfill, CEO of 20th Century Fox from 1971-1981, Chairman of KCET, a Los Angeles PBS station, in the 1980s, and Co-Chair and Co-CEO of MGM in the 1990s. During this time she chaired many charity premieres as well as Life Achievement Awards events for the American Film Institute.
"The Blood Remembers" records a journey in space and time. The protagonist is Rose Kirkland, a jewelry designer living in Santa Monica, who is struggling with a troubled marriage and her inability to have a child. In the midst of these tensions, she is startled by a mysterious inner voice, that of a young woman, sent by her family to marry a man she's never met.
The voice, Rose slowly realizes, is her own, a persona from a richly cultured past life. With her husband 's approval, Rose travels to Europe to trace the origins of the voice.
Her quest leads her to Oxford, England, to Vieste, her father's birthplace on the Adriatic coast of Southern Italy, and finally to Pirou Castle in Normandy, France, where Rose discovers a link to her own reality.
Among the people she meets on her time-travel odyssey of desire and self-discovery are the medieval Norman rulers of southern Italy -- Frederick II, (1194-1250) and his wizard/astrologer Michael Scot; Constance de Hauteville (Costanza d'Altavilla); Joanna Plantagenet; and King William II (the Good) of Sicily. Stanfill has extensively reseached the period.
Judith Krantz reports that she "thoroughly relished" The Blood Remembers.
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