New Meeting: Serious Fiction Fan Club April meeting

Announcing a new meeting for The East Valley Book Club!

What: Serious Fiction Fan Club April meeting

When: Monday, April 14, 7:00 PM

Where: Click the link below to find out!

Who should come: RSVP's are limited to ten except as approved by the organizer.

Meeting Description: Moving on with our project to read one book from each of the acknowledged six living literary lions of American literature, we elected to read Cormac McCarthy's "All the Pretty Horses" for April, E. L. Doctorow's "The March" in May, and "Beloved" by Toni Morrison in June.

Annie Proulx's use of language has been described as elegance squared and both Doctorow and Morrison use language that at times seems as much poetry as prose. By contrast, McCarthy uses language like a surgeon uses a scalpel, sparse sentences without embellishment, but with just the exact words needed to set the tone and tell the story. Sometimes, McCarthy uses words like blunt instruments, battering a reader?s emotions like a Marine Drill Instructor focuses the attention of a hapless, raw recruit.

Most of his books have Western themes: "Blood Meridian" made the top-five listing of all-time greatest American novels of the past twenty five years, the jury being writers and critics, and it's only 335 pages long. "No Country for Old Men," nominated this year for best movie, is only 309 pages. His latest, "The Road," at 241 sparse pages, won the 2007 Pulitzer. All three books are hauntingly, some would say disturbingly unforgettable.

"All the Pretty Horses" was published in 1993 as the first of a trilogy and adapted into a motion picture. Essentially, it is a lyrical and elegiac coming-of-age story about love, friendship, and loyalty crammed full of adventure and symbolism. The book established McCarthy as a consummate storyteller and you can Google up the plot description for yourself. It is a compelling read, even if one doesn't linger over the greater symbolism or bother to contemplate the deeper, age-old questions of morality that make the book such a masterpiece. This is serious literature; exactly what our small group is all about.

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