Book Club: The Living by Annie Dillard

Thu Oct 26 2023 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm

Parlour Wines | Seattle

Madison Books
Publisher/HostMadison Books
Book Club: The Living by Annie Dillard
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About this Event

Madison Books hosts an in-person Book Club meeting every month at 6:30 p.m., usually but not always on the last Thursday. Drop in to chat with your neighbors about some of the best books of this or any moment. All readers are welcome--you don't need to sign up in advance, but registering here will help us plan for the right number of attendees. Meetings are held at Parlour Wines, around the corner from the bookstore and across the street from the Madison Park tennis courts.

While most book clubs focus on the hottest current releases, we're doing something a little different this year by reaching into the past. We'll be exploring narratives of the Northwest, both contemporary and historical, fictional and nonfictional, by women writers. Some you'll certainly have heard of, maybe even already read and loved, but others may be serendipitous discoveries. We have a list we're pretty excited about, and we hope you will be, too!

Our October selection is by Annie Dillard.

This New York Times bestselling novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard is a mesmerizing evocation of life in the Pacific Northwest during the last decades of the 19th century.

"An august celebration of human frenzy and endurance and...an invigorating, intricate first novel. Annie Dillard shows a tremendous gift for writing in a genuinely epic mode." -- New York Times Book Review

"Remarkable. . . . A pleasure to read. . . . A deftly woven narrative saturated with violence, hardship, and triumph. Readers will be richly rewarded, for by the end of this deeply felt novel it is hard to let the frontier town and its people go." -- San Francisco Chronicle

"The kind of book a reader sinks into completely. . . . The characters are so compelling, the setting so detailed, so convincing, so absolutely complete. . . . The Living is an extraordinary accomplishment, one of those rare occasions when the written word results through the magic and talent of the author in the creation of the whole world." -- Boston Globe

"The Living is an impressive piece of fiction and a riveting hunk of history. . . . The many readers who have been drawn in the past to Dillard's work for its elegant and muscular use of language won't be disappointed in these pages. . . . She has given herself a landscape large enough to challenge her talents." -- Los Angeles Times

"Above all, a novel about the precious, wondrous, solitary, terrifying, utterly common condition of human life." -- Washington Post Book World

"A panoramic, hypnotic novel. . . . A novel of character that blends history, social change, and individual dreams in a sophisticated, seamless prose." -- Seattle Times

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Parlour Wines, 1803 42nd Ave E Ground, Seattle, United States

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