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Book Club
The book club meets every other month. We have a lively discussion
of the book as we enjoy refreshments. Usually we read books by
women authors that members might not otherwise read. The following
are this year’s selections. All AAUW members are welcome to join us.
Any questions, contact Roger Sween.
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July 8, 2008 – Ruth Prawer
Jhabvala,
Heat and Dust.
In a narrative
intermingling past and present, a young English woman journeys to
India to reconstruct the behavior of her grandfather’s first wife,
Olivia, who left husband and friends in 1923 out of love for an
Indian prince. All the people of Olivia’s time parallel those 50
years later in the time of the granddaughter, and the same problems
have different results. The author is a noted screenwriter with many
films to her credit in addition to novels that introduce the
intricacies of India to European and American readers.
September 8, 2008 – Jean Rhys,
Wide Sargasso Sea.
In a prequel to
Jane Eyre, Creole
heiress Antoinette Cosway lives in Dominica and Jamaica in the 1830s
before she travels to England, becomes Mrs. Rochester, and goes mad.
Rhys’ novel was central in a radical revaluation of accepted British
literary traditions, and she uses a number of subversive and
elliptical narratives to achieve her purpose. Like the mirrors that
are so central to Antoinette’s attempts to validate her divided
cultural psyche, the novel has many reverberations.
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Connecting Threads
Date: May
22nd -9:30 a.m.
Program: Spring Day Trip
Place:
Trimbelle River Studio and Design, Ellsworth, WI followed by lunch in
Stockholm, WI
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