N O V E M B E R

[Benjamin Law]

Y & R   B O O K C L U B   F O R   N O V E M B E R

In November, the Young and the Restless bookclub discusses 'A Gate at the Stairs', a novel by American writer Lorrie Moore.

S Y N O P S I S

Twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin has come to a university town as a college student, her brain on fire with Chaucer, Sylvia Plath and Simone de Beauvoir. Between semesters, she takes a job as a part-time nanny, and the family she works for seems both mysterious and glamorous. As the year unfolds, Tassie is drawn deeper into their lives, while her own life back home becomes ever more alien to her. 

A C C O L A D E S 

"[Moore]'s a discomfiting, sometimes even rageful writer, lurking in the disguise of an endearing one. On finishing 'A Gate at the Stairs' I turned to the reader nearest to me and made her swear to read it immediately."
— The New York Times Book Review

"The enrichment of such complications makes this one of the year's best novels, yet it is Tassie's eye that makes us better readers of life."
— Kirkus Reviews

D E T A I L S

WHEN: Wednesday 25 November @ 6.30pm (last Wednesday of every month)
WHERE: Avid Reader, 193 Boundary Street, West End
WOW: Regardless of whether you're able to attend bookclub, all Y&R mailing list members receive a 10% discount off all bookclub titles until the end of that month. Just tell the friendly Avid staff members you're a member.

I M P O R T A N T   N O T E !

Bookclub's next two titles will be determined by bookclub members! Please tell me: what are two (2x) books you wish you had read by now, but haven't gotten around to reading? 

(Mine are Salman Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children' and John Kennedy Toole's 'A Confederacy of Dunces'.)

Send nominations to benja...@gmail.com and an online poll will go online soon. Don't be shy. Even if you haven't been able to attend bookclub lately (or ever!) we want as many suggestions as possible.

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