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2007 - 2008
4th Mondays (3rd in December & May)
1:00-2:30 p.m. at the
William J. Pitkin Community Center, 30 Greenfield Street
April 28, 2008 One Book 4 Towns title, To Be Announced. The towns of Wethersfield, Berlin, Newington, and Rocky Hill each year in the spring join in a One Book 4 Towns community read program, with discussions and events in all four towns. The title is chosen in the fall and generally announced in January.
May 19, 2008 The Human Stain, by Philip Roth—(2001 Pen/Faulkner Award winner) The magnetic hero, Coleman Silk is a classics professor at a small Berkshire college, who embodies all the ambition, paradox, anger and futility of the American dream, and over his secretive life his mettlesome nature makes enemies. Fueled by Coleman’s story, Roth roars through a literary landscape that embraces the politics of race and sex, the Vietnam War, the absurdity of extreme political correctness, the dumbing down of the academy, and President Clinton’s impeachment. As he always does to galvanizing effect, Roth protests the tyranny of prejudice and propriety, and shakes his head in sorrow and wonder over the “inevitably stained creatures that we are.”
June 23, 2008 The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dustbowl, by Timothy Egan—(2006 National Book Award for Nonfiction) Egan tells of the desperate attempts of a dozen families and their communities to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. He brilliantly captures both the terrifying drama of catastrophe and the heroism of the human characters. This story of the greatest environmental disaster ever visited on America is also a powerful cautionary tale about the dangers of trifling with nature, as we read of global warming and remember Katrina’s impact on New Orleans.
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