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| Theme—Class Conscious . . . Class Conscience We like to think we're a "classless" society, but our books this month indicate otherwise. Socio-economic divisions have been a part of our history...and remain with us today. |
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Seating Arrangements
Maggie Shipstead, 2012
320 pp.
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The Accursed
Joyce Carol Oates, 2013
688 pp.
Book Review by Molly Lundquist
May, 2013
Over the past number of years, I'd grown wary of Joyce Carol Oates—with her characters and plots bordering on the grotesque. So it was with some trepidation that I picked up The Accursed.
Well, here again are her usual grotesqueries, this time placed in a historical context, with a gothic setting, and fantasy-thriller plotline—and all of it so mesmerizing it was difficult to put the book down.
The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton,
274 pp.
Book Review by Molly Lundquist
May 2013
Fifteen years before her Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton already had her sights trained on New York's gilded-age society. The result is The House of Mirth, a devastating portrait, far crueler and more predatory than anything in her later book.
And with Lily Bart, Wharton has given us one of literature's enduring heroines. Lily, with her remarkable beauty and innate charm, captivates readers in the same way she captivates the characters within the novel.
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