Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro) OR The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
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Remember, you only have to read one of the books, there will be a group to discuss each on the night.
At the end of every meeting we vote for two new books to discuss for the meeting after next. It would be great if you could prepare your own suggestions to nominate on the night. This could be any kind of book e.g. novel, non-fiction, biography, but ideally it should be less than 400 pages long.
June's books:
Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro): Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde): Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence.
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We will be meeting again in July, when we will be discussing Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune.