July Book-Club&Dinner Event: A Garden of Earthly Delights by Joyce Carol Oates

Come join us for a mediterranean style dinner and to discuss Joyce Carol Oates novel, "A Garden Of Earthly Delights"!

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Below is the synopsis from her publisher at Penguin Random House.

A masterly work from a writer with “the uncanny ability to give us a cinemascopic vision of her America” (National Review), A Garden of Earthly Delights is the opening stanza in what would become one of the most powerful and engrossing story arcs in literature.

Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In A Garden of Earthly Delights, Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers. Desperate to rise above her haphazard existence of violence and poverty, determined not to repeat her mother’s life, Clara struggles for independence by way of her relationships with four very different men: her father, a family man turned itinerant laborer, smoldering with resentment; the mysterious Lowry, who rescues Clara as a teenager and offers her the possibility of love; Revere, a wealthy landowner who provides Clara with stability; and Swan, Clara’s son, who bears the psychological and spiritual burden of his mother’s ambition.

[Book Synopsis by Penguin Random House]

Book link from the Publisher

Meetup Structure:
We will meet at Arpeggio Grill to discuss the book over dinner. We are expected to order food and drinks at the venue. After Introductions, we will have an open discussion on the book. E-copies of the book are available at Austin Public Library.