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Wednesdays, January 21st, February 18th, March 18th, April 15th at 10:00am in The Michael P. Coords Activity Room
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence (Wed, January 21st)
Writing early in the 20th century, Lawrence challenged the effects of modern thought and industrial life, believing they ran counter to people's natural instincts and undermined their emotional health. He made many enemies and suffered persecution for his views. However, despite having to wait until 1960 for uncensored publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lawrence's most controversial novel eventually brought about a radical and positive change to our writing and reading about sex.
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Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (Wed, February 18th)
On a trip to the South of France, the shy heroine of Rebecca falls in love with Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower. Although his proposal comes as a surprise, she happily agrees to marry him. But as they arrive at her husband's home, Manderley, a change comes over Maxim, and the young bride is filled with dread. Friendless in the isolated mansion, she realises that she barely knows him. In every corner of every room is the phantom of his beautiful first wife, Rebecca, and the new Mrs de Winter walks in her shadow.
Not since Jane Eyre has a heroine faced such difficulty with the other woman. An international bestseller that has never gone out of print, Rebecca is the haunting story of a young girl consumed by love and the struggle to find her identity.
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Atonement by Ian McEwan (Wednesday, March 18th)
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper’s son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Briony’s sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge.
By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had never before dared to approach and will have become victims of the younger girl’s scheming imagination. And Briony will have committed a dreadful crime, the guilt for which will color her entire life.
In each of his novels Ian McEwan has brilliantly drawn his reader into the intimate lives and situations of his characters. But never before has he worked with so large a canvas: In Atonement he takes the reader from a manor house in England in 1935 to the retreat from Dunkirk in 1941; from the London’s World War II military hospitals to a reunion of the Tallis clan in 1999.
Atonement is Ian McEwan’s finest achievement. Brilliant and utterly enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war, England and class, the novel is at its center a profound–and profoundly moving–exploration of shame and forgiveness and the difficulty of absolution.
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The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith (Wed, April 15th)
The Price of Salt is a groundbreaking 1952 lesbian romance novel by Patricia Highsmith, published under the pseudonym Claire Morgan, notable for its realistic portrayal of a love affair between a young clerk, Therese Belivet, and an older, married woman, Carol Aird, and for its unprecedented happy ending, which defied the tragic conventions of the time. The story follows their chance meeting in a department store, their passionate road trip, and the societal pressures they face, becoming a cult classic and a foundational text in LGBTQ+ literature. It was later reissued under Highsmith's own name and adapted into the film Carol.
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