Dominican University Book Club
Reading Selections
Fall 2006
Spring and Summer 2007

All meetings take place in Lewis Lounge
Discussions are from 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Thurs., September 28	Old School by Tobias Wolff. During his senior year at an elite New England prep school, a young man who had struggled to fit in with his contemporaries finds his life unraveling due to the school's obsession with literary figures and their work.
Thurs., October 19	A Distant Shore by Caryl Philips. Moving into a new bungalow in an English village, retired teacher Dorothy meets night watchman Solomon, an illegal immigrant, in a tale that recounts their experiences as solitary outsiders in a hostile world
Thurs., November 16	The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard. From the 1950s to the 1980s, in Sydney, London, New York, and Stockholm, Caro and Grace Bell--beautiful Australian orphans--make their ways with the husbands and lovers whom they love in duty and passion.
Thurs., December 14	Amongst Women by John McGahern. An aging former guerrilla leader in the Irish War of Independence tries to understand his relationships with the women--especially his young, flirtatious second wife and his three daughters.
Thurs., January 18	The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy. A young boy, an old man, and the outlaw who has unknowingly killed the boy's father, all try to resist the changes brought about during the period between the wars.
Thurs., February 22	The Master Butchers Singing Club: A novel by Louise Erdich. Returning to his quiet German village home after World War I, trained killer Fidelis Waldvogel, accompanied by his wife, leaves to start a new life in America and finds his life irrevocably changed by a new relationship.
Thurs., March 22	The Living: A Novel by Annie Dillard.   The inhabitants of a new and growing town near Washington's Puget Sound in the final decades of the nineteenth century struggle to make their lives successful.
Thurs., April 19	Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons. After the death of her mother, an eleven-year-old girl finds that life with her father is too dangerous and tries to find a new home.
Thurs., May 24	Evening by Susan Minot. Now ailing and surrounded by her children, sixty-five-year-old Ann Grant Lord reminisces about a glorious summer weekend some forty years earlier during which she met and lost the love of her life.
Thurs., June 28	Al and Nino: A love Story by Kurban Said. A rediscovered epic tale of love, revolution, and war follows two lovers from the city of Baku on the Caspian Sea as the chaos of World War I and the Russian Revolution sweep them up and separate them
Thurs., July 26	Saturday by Ian McEwan. A successful, happily married neurosurgeon, Henry Perowne is drawn into a confrontation with Baxter, a small-time thug, following a minor motor vehicle accident, an encounter that has savage consequences.
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