Daniel Wallace - This Isn't Going to End Well

Please join The Country Bookshop as we welcome Daniel Wallace while he presents his book This Isn't Going to End Well.

If we're lucky, we all encounter at least one person whose life elevates and inspires our own. For acclaimed novelist Daniel Wallace, he had one hero and inspiration for so much of what followed: his longtime friend and brother-in-law William Nealy. Seemingly perfect, impossibly cool, William was James Dean, Clint Eastwood, and MacGyver all rolled into one, an acclaimed outdoorsman, a famous cartoonist, an accomplished author, a master of all he undertook, William was the ideal that Daniel sought to emulate.But when William took his own life at age 48, Daniel was left first grieving, and then furious with the man who broke his and his sister's hearts. That anger led him to commit a grievous act of his own, a betrayal that took him down a dark path into the tortured recesses of William's past. Eventually, a new picture of William emerged, of a man with too many secrets and too much shame to bear.This Isn't Going to End Well is Daniel Wallace's first foray into nonfiction. Part love story, part true crime, part a desperate search for the self and how little we really can know another, This Isn't Going to End Well tells an intimate and moving story of what happens when we realize our heroes are human.

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Event date: 
Wednesday, May 10, 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Event address: 
140 NW Broad Street
Southern Pines, NC 28387
This Isn't Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew By Daniel Wallace Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781643752105
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Algonquin Books - April 11th, 2023

“A memoir wrapped in an elegy… [that] maps a strangely stunning life… [Wallace] imbues this chronicle with tremendous compassion — for William, for everyone. This Isn’t Going to End Well gives off the particular radiance of a life lived hard, whatever else: as such, a brand of American bildungsroman.