To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Thanks to Michela for encouraging us to revisit the classics! We'll be enjoying Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse for our first club in November. I and some other members remember struggling with it as teens, so we're hoping we can learn to appreciate it now that we have big grown-up brains... But maybe not! Come to the book club and see!!!

A little blurb lifted from Wikipedia: "Following and extending the tradition of modernist novelists like Marcel Proust and James Joyce, the plot of To the Lighthouse is secondary to its philosophical introspection. Cited as a key example of the literary technique of multiple focalization, the novel includes little dialogue and almost no direct action; most of it is written as thoughts and observations. To the Lighthouse is made up of three powerfully charged visions into the life of the Ramsay family, living in a summer house off the rocky coast of Scotland. There's maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the highbrow Mr. Ramsay, their eight children, and assorted holiday guests. From Mr. Ramsay's seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Virginia Woolf examines tensions and allegiances and shows that the small joys and quiet tragedies of everyday life could go on forever."