Book Club
The Dominican University Library Book Club meets on Thursdays from
7:00-9:00 pm in the Center for Teaching & Learning Excellence (Parmer Hall).
2008-2009 Schedule
September 25 - Romola by George Eliot
Innocent Romola's life is shaped by her love for a man whose selfishness leads him to evil deeds.October 23 -
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Jack Gladney, a professor of Nazi history at a Middle American liberal arts school, and his
family try to handle normal family life as a black cloud of lethal gaseous fumes threaten their
town.
November 20 -
Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The story of Dorian Gray, whose handsome appearance remains unchanged while the features in his portrait become distorted as his degeneration progresses, is accompanied by three short stories, "The Happy Prince," "The Birthday of the Infanta," and "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime."
December 18 -
Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
Presents Hardy's classic novel of two people caught up in their passion for each other and conflicting ambitions.
January 22 -
Angels & Insects: Two Novellas by A.S. Byatt
Presents two novellas--"The Conjugal Angel," which reveals human preoccupation with God and life after death, and "Morpho Eugenia," a gothic fable about Victorian obsessions with Darwinism and sexuality.
February 19 -
The First Man by Albert Camus
Traces the story of Jacques Cormery, a young man who rises above the losses and misfortunes of his childhood in Algeria.
March 26 -
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
A nineteenth-century novel of the unhappy marriage between Helen Graham and her drunken husband realistically portrays the evils of alcoholism and its devastating impact.
April 23 - Doctor Copernicus by John Banville
Retells the life of the sixteenth-century cleric whose ideas demolished the medieval view of the universe.May 28 -
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
When Oedipa Maas is named as the executor of her late lover's will, she discovers that his estate is mysteriously connected with an underground organization.
June 25 -
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schultz &
The Island: Three Tales by Gustaw Herling
Memories of Schultz’s uncommon childhood in the Polish city of Drogobych in
The Street of the Crocodiles
Three stories set in an Italy of abysmal poverty and medieval superstition feature
characters that use their wit and compassion to pull themselves out of bizarre situations in
The Island: Three Tales.
July 23 -
The Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
One Navajo family, on a New Mexico reservation, struggles to survive in a world no longer theirs in the years just before and after World War II.
Please contact Mary Pat Fallon, 708-524-6602 or mpfallon@dom.edu if you have any questions.
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