JANUARY BOOK
Belated ritual solstice greetings and a Happy New Year to all!
January's book will be Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner (https://www.amazon.com/Hotel-Du-Lac-Anita-Brookner/dp/0679759328), a short read for the holiday season. Note: we have moved the meeting to Tuesday, Jan. 8 to avoid a conflict with New Year's Day. Join us for an evening of good food, good drink and lively conversation in the Sylvia Hotel dining room, starting at 7pm. (We no longer meet in the lounge.) New members (and old) always welcome. Happy reading to all in 2019!
In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question "Why love?" It tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a pseudonym. When her life begins to resemble the plots of her own novels, however, Edith flees to Switzerland, where the quiet luxury of the Hotel du Lac promises to restore her to her senses. Beautifully observed, witheringly funny, Hotel du Lac is Brookner at her most stylish and potently subversive.
