Book change for July 2016 Contemporary Book Discussion
| From: | Anthony |
| Sent on: | Sunday, March 23, 2014, 4:14 PM |
Hi, everyone. :-)
This is an announcement for a change to the East Bay Book Club's reading schedule for 2014.
Originally, the July 2014 Contemporary Book Discussion (not yet announced on the club's web site) would focus on Subtle Bodies by Norman Rush. Although last year's book poll led to that book being put on this year's reading schedule, the person who had suggested the book has now discovered how badly the book is written and has decided to replace that suggested book with another by the same author. With that, here is the information on the book that will be discussed in July:
Date: July 16, 2014
Meeting Location: Emeryville
Title: Mating by Norman Rush
Genre: Fiction – General
Year of Publication: 1991
Approximate Page Count: 496 pages
Summary: The narrator of this splendidly expansive novel of high intellect and grand passion is an American anthropologist at loose ends in the South African republic of Botswana. She has a noble and exacting mind, a good waist, and a busted thesis project. She also has a yen for Nelson Denoon, a charismatic intellectual who is rumored to have founded a secretive and unorthodox utopian society in a remote corner of the Kalahari—one in which he is virtually the only man. What ensues is both a quest and an exuberant comedy of manners, a book that explores the deepest canyons of eros even as it asks large questions about the good society, the geopolitics of poverty, and the baffling mystery of what men and women really want.
Suggested by: Wendy
Thank you. :-)
Anthony
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