Mark your calendar for the Lost & Found discussion of
Caroline Blackwood's shockingly funny "Great Granny Webster" on July
29th at 6:30pm.
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here to reserve a copy of the book.
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here to register to attend the book group.
Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwood was celebrated as
a great beauty and dazzling raconteur long before she made her name as a
strikingly original writer. This macabre, mordantly funny, partly
autobiographical novel reveals the gothic craziness behind the scenes in the
great houses of the aristocracy, as witnessed through the unsparing eyes of an
orphaned teenage girl.
Great Granny Webster herself is a fabulous monster, the
chilliest of matriarchs, presiding with steely self-regard over a landscape of
ruined lives. It is Blackwood's masterpiece and another novel to add to that
strange pantheon of short works that pack an enormous literary wallop! Poet
Philip Larkin said about it, "None of us will ever forget Caroline
Blackwood's "Great Granny Webster", a matter-of-fact account -
and all the grimmer for this matter-of-factness - of the temperamental and
circumstantial misfortunes of the Ulster family.
Although it's deceptively concise, it evokes the spirit of
no less than four ages: Victorian, Edwardian, pre- and postwar, in exact,
resonant prose...A uniquely literary experience." Feel free to enjoy an
adult beverage during the discussion. We look forward to seeing you!
Save The Date!
August’s Lost & Found selection is a collection of short
stories by Paul Bowles. Don’t be alarmed
by the size of the book, the list of assigned stories for the August 26th
meeting is as follows:
The Echo
A Distant Episode
Call at Corazon
The Circular Valley
The Delicate Prey
The Hours After Noon
The Frozen Fields
Midnight Mass
The Eye
Allal
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