About this Event
Hello!
After Kōbō Abe's The Woman in the Dunes scored 7.5 at October's South London Book Club, in December we will be going for Colored Television by Danzy Senna.
This meeting will take place at the usual time and place of 7pm on the evening of Tuesday, December 2nd at the Roundhouse, Wandsworth.
Of the book, The Guardian writes:
In this sly novel about dreams, ambition and race as performance, Jane’s fantasy is telling. Because what she carefully edits out are the unlovely truths underneath its gleaming surface: that she and Lenny had been in couples therapy until their money ran out. That Lenny’s paintings don’t sell. That Jane has been toiling over a sprawling novel for 10 years, a "400‑year history of mulatto people in fictional form", which she must publish in order to get tenure. That her son’s unusual behaviour may merit a doctor’s diagnosis. And, finally, that the beautiful house and its accoutrements don’t belong to them; the family are merely house sitting for Jane’s wealthy screenwriter friend Brett, because the only places they can afford in the greater LA area are "not just overpriced but ugly, smelly, and dark".
Key info:
• all are welcome
• please make sure you've done your best to read the book before joining us!
• please bring a suggestion for our next read
Colored Television is 288 pages in length.We will likely be a group of eight. If you are new to the Group, just come along and don't be apprehensive. We were all first timers once.
You don't need to bring the book but make sure you have read it and bring your opinions!
If you are attending for the first time, we will likely all be in far corner of the pub. Imagine that you are standing in front of the long bit of the bar, go left, up the steps and we will try to be sitting in the top left-land corner of the pub.
If you cannot make it, please adjust your RSVP, it helps us to organise seating.
We will have a piece of A4 on our table displaying Colored Television.
Do bring an idea of what book we put in the schedule next. Here's to a great time discussing Colored Television, 7pm at The Roundhouse.
Best wishes,
Emily & The South London Book Club
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Roundhouse, 2 North Side Wandsworth Common, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
