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• Read a conversation with Alice Munro
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The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group’s reading of Alice Munro’s collection The Love of a Good Woman. In these eight stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies [...]
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The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group’s reading of Ha Jin’s first novel, In the Pond, and two of his short fiction collections, Ocean of Words and The Bridegroom.
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The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group’s experience of reading Richard Russo’s Straight Man. We hope they will provide interesting new angles from which to examine this funny, poignant, and compassionate novel by one of the most compelling storytellers of our day.
William Henry Devereaux, [...]
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The questions, discussion topics, author biography, and bibliography that follow are meant to enhance your group’s reading of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled. We hope that they will provide you with new ways of looking at—and talking about—this mysterious and infinitely provocative new novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of [...]
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The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group’s reading of Jill Ker Conway’s The Road from Coorain. We hope they will aid your understanding of the many rich themes that make up Conway’s story of her youth in mid-century Australia.
Conway recounts the successive phases of her [...]
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The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group’s reading of Vikram Seth’s An Equal Music.
While a music student in Vienna, violinist Michael Holme falls in love with pianist Julia McNicholl. They play together in a string trio, but when Michael has a nervous breakdown because of [...]
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The following questions, discussion topics, and author biography are intended to enhance your group’s reading of Alistair MacLeod’s first novel, No Great Mischief. This beautiful, elegiac novel portrays a tightly-knit Scottish family plagued by loss and clinging loyally to the legacy of its heroic past.
In 1779, 55-year-old Calum Ruadh, or the red Calum [...]
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The questions, discussion topics, and suggested reading list that follow are intended to enhance your group’s experience of reading Bernard Lefkowitz’s Our Guys. We hope they will provide you with a number of interesting angles from which to approach this harrowing and deeply revealing story of the violent undercurrents that exist within [...]
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“Astonishing. . . . A rich and varied spectacle, full of wisdom and laughter and the touches of the unexpectedly familiar through which literature illuminates life.” —The Wall Street Journal
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The questions, discussion topics, and suggested reading list that follow are intended to enhance your group’s experience of reading [...]
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