Bixby Knolls Literary Society
Book List
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1. Holy Land by DJ Waldie
2. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
3. Ask the Dust by John Fante
4. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
5. American Pastoral by Phillip Roth
6. The Golden Spur by Dawn Powell
7. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
8. Native Son by Richard Wright
9. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
10. Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
11. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
12. Working by Studs Terkel
13. The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen
14 Rain of Gold by Victor Villasenor
15. Beloved by Toni Morrison
16. A Mass For the Dead by William Gibson
17. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
18. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
19. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
20. Light in August by William Faulkner
21. The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
22. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
23. Wonderland by Joyce Carol Oates
24. In the Guise of Mercy by Wendy Hornsby
25. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
26. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
27. L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy
28. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
29.
Cry, the Beloved Country
by
Alan Paton
30. The End of the Affair
by
Graham Greene
The Bixby Knolls Business Improvement Association holds the monthly community book club, the Bixby Knolls Literary Society, at various locations in Bixby Knolls. The Society will focus on current releases as well as American classics. Special guest discussion leaders and authors will participate in the group discussions.
The Society meets the second Wednesday of each month, 7:00pm
September 2010 Selection:
The End of the Affair
by
Graham Greene
Next Society Meeting:
Tuesday, September 14, 2010, 7:00pm
Expo
4321 Atlantic Avenue
Parking available along Atlantic and on Burlinghall
Refreshments will be provided
"The story of a woman lost between two men, a husband and a lover, told from the lover's point of view. The plot is dramatic, the characters unwittingly and wittingly involved in one of the most common human stories. Greene's writing style is perfect. There is not a word or an activity wasted, and at the same time the tale is beautifully and compellingly told. This book is an amazing example of the finest literary composition, but it is also fascinating in the acute and at times understated manner in which these three character's psychologies play together to enmesh the hearts of two men and the life of the woman. This is also a spiritual novel, asking questions while at the same time attempting answers. And throughout, there is a strong sense of honesty that one doesn't find in most romantic novels. The characters seem to be real persons, whose lives are not dramatic or dramatized, but related in all their smallness, their dissatisfaction, their quest for understanding, and that inexplicable desire for something more. I was surprised to find that this small book was such a satisfying as well as haunting read. Anyone planning to write fiction, particularly romance (not that silly fluff romance, but something meaningful), should become acquainted with this novel. It tells so much so very well."
--An Anonymous Reader
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