The story of Lucy Gaults, William Trevor (2002) shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2002: Acclaimed Irish novelist William Trevor tells the sad story of Lucy Gault. In 1921 with a civil war imminent in County Cork in Ireland, Captain Everard Gault and his family prepare to flee into exile before their manor is burned to the ground. Their 9-year old daughter, Lucy, doesn't want to leave and runs away. When she doesn't return, the family fears she has drowned and leaves without her. One of the family servants finds Lucy deep in the woods with a broken ankle and raises her as their own. It's a story of loss and love that was a finalist for the 2002 Man Booker Prize. It's gathered high praise from almost all reviewers, The Boston Globe says, "The Story of Lucy Gault is a novel blessed with sorrow and inevitability, its rueful beauty a requiem for an 'Ireland of the ruins' as well as for human folly and deliverance. Few living writers are capable of such mournful depth as William Trevor, and here he has given us an evensong to time itself."
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) any book
Charles Dickens (7 February 1812–9 June 1870), was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and one of the most popular of all time, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters. - We talked about visiting the Dickens Museum: http://www.dickensmuseum.com/
William Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was a Nobel Prize-winning American author - voted down in March meeting
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The story of Lucy Gaults, William Trevor (2002) shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2002: Acclaimed Irish novelist William Trevor tells the sad story of Lucy Gault. In 1921 with a civil war imminent in County Cork in Ireland, Captain Everard Gault and his family prepare to flee into exile before their manor is burned to the ground. Their 9-year old daughter, Lucy, doesn't want to leave and runs away. When she doesn't return, the family fears she has drowned and leaves without her. One of the family servants finds Lucy deep in the woods with a broken ankle and raises her as their own. It's a story of loss and love that was a finalist for the 2002 Man Booker Prize. It's gathered high praise from almost all reviewers, The Boston Globe says, "The Story of Lucy Gault is a novel blessed with sorrow and inevitability, its rueful beauty a requiem for an 'Ireland of the ruins' as well as for human folly and deliverance. Few living writers are capable of such mournful depth as William Trevor, and here he has given us an evensong to time itself."
ReplyDeleteErnest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) any book
ReplyDeleteCharles Dickens (7 February 1812–9 June 1870), was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and one of the most popular of all time, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters. - We talked about visiting the Dickens Museum: http://www.dickensmuseum.com/
William Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was a Nobel Prize-winning American author - voted down in March meeting
Too Big to Fail - Andrew Ross Sorkin - voted down in March meeting (to long and "old news")