NEW!
The Greenwich Pen Women/Perrot Memorial Library Book Discussion Group
These discussion groups are open to all patrons of the Perrot Memorial Library.
Pre-registration is required, as seating is limited to the first 20 registrants.
Please sign up and get your copy of the book to be discussed at the Adult Circulation Desk.
Vinegar Girl, by Anne Tyler
Theme: Contemporary Fiction Meets Shakespeare
Facilitated by Greenwich Pen Woman Jean P. Moore
Monday, March 6th, 2017, 7-8:30 PM
(Snow Date: Monday, March 13th)
The Rand Room, Perrot Memorial Library
Vinegar Girl, by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Anne Tyler, is a retelling of Shakespeare’s play, The Taming of the Shrew. The novel, one in a series from the Hogarth Shakespeare project, is described by the project’s editors as “an inspired, witty and irresistible contemporary take on one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies.”
About the Book:
Kate Battista feels stuck. At 29, she is still at home, keeping house for her obsessive scientist father and her pampered younger sister, Bunny. Things can only get worse when her father hatches a plan: Kate should marry his brilliant young lab assistant, Pyotr, who is soon to be deported. Kate furiously rejects the idea—at first—but will her father and her suitor wear down her resistance?
About the Project:
The Hogarth Shakespeare Project presents the Bard’s works through imaginative retellings by some of the world’s most esteemed novelists. Launched in 2015, books are planned through 2021. Current plans include publication in 20 countries. (See http://hogarthshakespeare.com for further details.)
PRE-REGISTER NOW AT THE ADULT CIRCULATION DESK FOR THIS DISCUSSION!
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Watch for more info on these two discussions, coming later in the year:
An Owl on Every Post, by Sanora Babb
Theme: Rediscovery of a Fascinating Writer
Facilitated by Greenwich Pen Woman Joanne Dearcopp
Monday, May 8th, 2017 7-8:30 PM
The Rand Room, Perrot Memorial Library
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance, by Edmund de Waal
Theme: Art, Emotion, and Memory
Facilitated by Greenwich Pen Woman Sarah Darer Littman
Monday, September 11th, 2017, 7-8:30 PM
The Rand Room, Perrot Memorial Library
