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Passionate readers meet via Zoom to discuss classic, popular books. Please register for a link to attend the meeting.
This months selection is "Under the Volcano" by Malcolm Lowry. Ebook and audiobook available through hoopla.
The acclaimed classic about one fatal day in a small Mexican town, hailed by the Modern Library as one of the one hundred best English novels of the twentieth century Former British consul Geoffrey Firmin lives alone with his demons in the shadow of two active volcanoes in South Central Mexico. Gripped by alcoholism, Geoffrey makes one last effort to salvage his crumbling life on the day that his ex-wife, Yvonne, arrives in town. It's the Day of the Dead, 1938. The couple wants to revive their marriage and undo the wrongs of their past, but they soon realize that they've stumbled into the wrong place and time, where not only Geoffrey and Yvonne, but the world itself is on the edge of Armageddon. Under the Volcano stands as an iconic and richly drawn example of the modern novel at its most lyrical.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Adult Program | Adult Book Club |
TAGS: | online | meeting | discussion | book |
