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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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The questions, discussion topics, and suggested reading list that follow are intended to enhance your group’s experience of reading [...]
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The questions, discussion topics, and reading list that follow are intended to enhance your group’s reading of Anne Michaels’s Fugitive Pieces. We hope they will aid your understanding of the many rich themes that make up this radiant and lyrical first novel by one of Canada’s foremost poets.
In Poland during World War [...]
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The questions, topics, and author biography that follow are designed to enhance your group’s reading and discussion of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. We hope that they will provide you with new ways of looking at—and talking about—a book that is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest American novels of the second half [...]
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• Enjoy a walking tour of Savannah from Fodor’s
• Savannah residents react to the book
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The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are designed to enhance your group’s reading of John Berendt’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. We hope they will provide you with interesting ways to [...]
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The questions, discussion topics, and author bio that follow are intended to enhance your group’s reading of Kaye Gibbons’s Ellen Foster. We hope they will give you a number of interesting angles from which to approach this harrowing yet often hilarious story of an abandoned child’s search for her place in the world.
“When [...]
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The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group’s reading of Philip Roth’s American Pastoral. We hope they will open up new approaches to this explosive and viscerally moving novel by one of the most esteemed American writers of the twentieth century.
Seymour “Swede” Levov comes of age [...]
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