EISENHOWER PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT

...Serving Harwood Heights and Norridge since 1972

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Adult Book Discussion

Come join a lively and informative book discussion group at the library. The Monday session is held from 7:00 to 8:30 and the Tuesday session is from 2:00 to 3:30 in the meeting room on the second floor. We read a mix of contemporary and older classics as well as some biography and non-fiction. Copies of each month's book are available in regular and large type at the Library Services Desk.

July's Book

Book Jacket: The Whore's Child and Other Stories By Richard Russo


The Whore's Child and Other Stories

By Richard Russo

August 2 & 3, 2010



Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling Empire Falls, also named the year's best novel by Time, Richard Russo now focuses, in his first book of short fiction, on a fresh and fascinating range of human behavior. With a fluency of tone that will surprise even his devoted readers, he captures both bewildering horror and heartrending tenderness with an absorbing, compassionate authority.

We warm to these newcomers, as to all Russo's characters, almost despite ourselves. A jaded Hollywood moviemaker uncovers a decades-old flame he never knew he'd harbored. A precocious fifth grader puzzles over life, love, and baseball as he watches his parents' marriage dissolve. Another child is forced into a harrowing cross-country escape whose actual purpose he learns only after the fact. An elderly couple rediscovers the power, and the misery, of their relationship during a long-awaited retreat to a resort island. And in the title story, a septuagenarian man invades the narrator's college writing workshop with an incredible saga.
From publisher description.

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