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Fourth Wednesday BOOK CLUB
- September 23, 7:30 pm
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 FOURTH
WEDNESDAY BOOK DISCUSSION CLUB--SEPTEMBER 2009
This is a special kind of
Book Club. Members are not obligated to attend monthly meetings,
but simply choose which monthly selections they would like to read and
discuss and come to those meetings which interest them. If the monthly
book selection peaks your interest, be sure to RSVP to the person mentioned
in the monthly announcement.
Our selection this month is
OUT STEALING HORSES by Pers Petterson, a Norwegian writer.
His novel has won numerous awards, including being chosen one of the best
books of 2007 by the New York Times Book Review and receiving the
2006 Independent London Foreign Fiction Prize. We are again the grateful
recipients of the Library's "Book Club in a Bag," and have ten copies to
hand out. Your copy can be picked up at Polly Clement's home.
When?
Wednesday, September 23, 7:30 p.m.
Where?
the home of Peggy Winkler
RSVP:
Call Polly or email her.
Cost:
$3.00 for wine, cheese & dessert
Excerpts from some book
reviews:
"In Petterson's hands, words
become spare, gorgeous prose, casting a spell over the reader, luring us
into the forest, into silence, until we hear the clear voices of his characters."
"Trond Sander, a man nearing
70, has just moved in self-imposed exile to the eastern edge of Norway
in a primitive cabin. Trond's peaceful existence is interrupted by
a meeting with his only neighbor, who seems familiar. The meeting
pries loose a memory from a summer day in 1948 when Trond's friend Jon
suggests they go out and steal horses. That distant summer is transformative
for Trond as he reflects on the fragility of life while discovering secrets
about his father's wartime activities. Artful interplay of Trond's
childhood and adult perspective. Loss is conveyed with all the intensity
of a boy's perception, but acquires new resonance in the brooding consciousness
of the older man."
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The Graduates – 2009
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