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Book Club to Discuss The Bell

River Forest, IL – Dominican University’s Book Club will meet on Thursday, September 19, to discuss Iris Murdoch’s The Bell. The book club meets at 7:00 p.m. in Lewis Lounge on the first floor of Lewis Hall on the main campus, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest.

Set in the 1940s in a small English hamlet near an Abbey of sequestered nuns, The Bell explores the relationships of a group of people who have established a lay community in the ancestral home of Michael Meade. The community includes several characters "whose desire for God makes them unsatisfactory citizens of an ordinary life, but whose strength or temperament fails them to surrender the world completely." The force and tension of repressed contemplation grows until it is released by a series of stunning events.

Murdoch was a renowned English writer and philosopher who was made a Dame Commander in the Order of the British Empire in 1987. The Bell was published in 1958, and is one of her best-known works.

For more information on Dominican University’s Book Club, please contact Mary Pat Fallon, (708) 524-6602 or mpfallon@dom.edu.

Founded in 1901, Dominican University is a comprehensive, coeducational Catholic institution offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Dominican offers 50 undergraduate academic programs through the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and 15 graduate programs through the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the Brennan School of Business, the School of Education, the Graduate School of Social Work and the School of Leadership and Continuing Studies. In the 2008 issue of America’s Best Colleges, U.S. News & World Report again ranked Dominican University in the top tier of Midwest master’s level universities and as a “best value” for the tenth consecutive year.