Monthly Book Club

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Start: 18/06/2014T19:00+01:00
Location: The Waterside Hotel & Galleon Leisure Club

18th June 2014 7pm

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18th June 2014 7pm

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The Waterside Hotel & Galleon Leisure Club, Wilmslow Road, Didsbury, M20 5WZ

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One for book lovers in a relaxing and intimate venue. Chatting about a mutual passion is one of the ways to get to know people so come along and express your views on our chosen novel, your week ahead, or any other subject that comes up.

This month's book is Orlando: A biography by Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a ...young nobleman in Elizabeth's England, awaits a visit from the Queen and traces his experience with first love as England under James I lies locked in the embrace of the Great Frost.

At the midpoint of the novel, Orlando, now an ambassador in Costantinople, awakes to find that he is a woman, and the novel indulges in farce and irony to consider the roles of women in the 18th and 19th centuries. As the novel ends in 1928, a year consonant with full suffrage for women. Orlando, now a wife and mother, stands poised at the brink of a future that holds new hope and promise for women. Wordsworth Classics presents this new edition, proclaimed by Woolf's contemporary Rebecca West as ‘a poetic masterpiece of the first rank,’ restoring Woolf's original photographs and index, and with an introduction and notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, US scholar in Modernist and Woolf studies.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Orlando-Biography-Wordsworth-Virginia-Woolf/dp/1853262390/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1401312565&sr=1-1&keywords=orlando

And don't forget to come with a suggestion for out next book; the theme for our July book is 20th Century American Novels.