Monday, March 5, 2012, at 7 PM
Like Michael Cunningham in The Hours, Colm Toibin captures the extraordinary mind and heart of a great writer in a beautiful and profoundly moving novel. A fictionalized study based on many biographical materials and family accounts of Henry James's life, The Master tells the story of a man born into one of America's first intellectual families who leaves his country in the late nineteenth century to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among privileged artists and writers.
In stunningly resonant prose, Toibin captures the loneliness and the hope of a master of psychological subtlety whose forays into intimacy inevitably failed those he tried to love.
As background to our discussion of this novel, we're asking book club members to read either of these two shorter works by Henry James--Daisy Miller, or The Turn of the Screw. Ambitious readers are encouraged to tackle both!
We've uploaded the conversation to archive.org, where you can listen to a streaming version or download it. Have a listen through the link, here.
Howard Frank Mosher, a beloved American novelist and winner of the 2011 New England Independent Booksellers Association's President's Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts, returns with a memoir that is both a chronicle of his recent 100-city book tour across America and a reflection on his development as a writer. Mr. Mosher will be at Gibson's Bookstore for a reading and signing on Thursday April 19th, 2012, at 7 p.m. Enjoy this slideshow, from his cross-country trip.
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