WHEN:
7/25/2007
WHERE:
North Valley Regional Library
40410 N Gavilan Peak Pkwy
Anthem, AZ 85086
(602) 525-1126
DETAILS:
Join us for our monthly, informal book discussion! New members always welcome! July’s selection will be Saturday, by Ian McEwan: In the predawn sky on a Saturday morning, London neurosurgeon Henry Perowne sees a plane with a wing afire streaking toward Heathrow. His first thought is terrorism--especially since this is the day of a public demonstration against the pending Iraq war. Eventually, danger to Perowne and his family will come from another source, but the plane turns out to be a harbinger of a world forever changed. Meanwhile, the reader follows Perowne through his day, mainly via an interior monologue. His cerebral peregrination records, in turn, the meticulous details of brain surgery, a car accident followed by a confrontation with a hoodlum, a far-from-routine squash game, a visit to Perowne's mother in a nursing home and a family reunion. It is during the latter event, at the end of the day, that the ominous pall that has hovered over the narrative explodes into violence, and Perowne's sense that the world has become "a community of anxiety" plays out in suspense, delusion, heroism and reconciliation. (From Publishers Weekly) Coffee and water provided.
Registration is requested and begins 7/1/2007
