Experience a literary and musical journey back to Don Juan’s world of Golden Age Spain... May 15, 2007

WHAT: Douglas Carlton Abrams reads passages from his acclaimed novel, “The Lost Diary of Don Juan: An Account of the True Arts of Passion and the Perilous Adventure of Love”

The Andalusian Tourist Board/Turismo Andaluz will be sponsoring Joshua Bavaro, a Classical Spanish Guitarist to perform at the event.

WHO: Douglas Carlton Abrams, was a former editor at the University of California Press and Harper San Francisco. He has co-authored a number of books on love, spirituality, and sexuality.

WHY: Don Juan, the world's greatest lover, is a mythic character who for centuries has inspired countless art forms, from poems to operas to films. Now, novelist Douglas Carlton Abrams unmasks a man far more soulful and complex than any previous portrayal in his hotly anticipated debut.

WHEN: May 15th Music Starts at 6:30 P.M.

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“So rich, so detailed, so colorful, The Lost Diary of Don Juan is a magic carpet of a book, a picaresque adventure that takes you to a time and place blazing with excitement and discovery. Doug Abrams writes with such polish, immediacy, and authority, you pause to admire his mastery of narrative. The book, like its hero, is a seducer.”
--Frank McCourt, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Angela’s Ashes

“One of the most compelling Don Juan’s in literary history.” –Kirkus Reviews

“The famously insatiable lover is brought brilliantly to life.” –Publishers Weekly

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