Richard Russo's
Empire Falls
April 12, 2010 @ 7:00 pm
Marsha Bansavage, Facilitator
Richard Russo is regarded as the best writer about small - town America since Sherwood Anderson and Sinclair Lewis. When Richard Russo left his own small town in upstate New York, it was with hopes of becoming a college professor. But during his graduate studies, he began to have second thoughts about the academic life. While finishing up his doctorate, he took a creative writing class, and a new career path opened in front of him. His experiences in Gloversville, New York as a child have shaped his writing allowing him to accurately depict small town American.
Suffice it to say that he touches on love and marriage, lust and loss and small - town economics, with more than a soupcon of class resentment stirred into the broth. This is, in a sense, an epic of small and large frustrations: " After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble.''
Richard Russo lives with his wife in Camden, Maine, and in Boston. In 2002 he was awarded the Pultizer Prize for Empire Falls.
Copies of the book are available at the Circulation Desk.
Art between the Wars
(TBA Spring 2010)
Presented by
Barbara Zabel
from Connecticut College
All patrons are invited to participate in the Library’s new multidisciplinary book discussion and lectures series on 20th century American classics. Readers are encouraged to join us for stimulating book discussions on some of the most iconic works of American literature. Share your ideas on how these works have influenced contemporary literature of our time. Additional lectures will be presented on social trends, politics, history and culture of the era. Stay tuned for upcoming announcements about the series as it unfolds.
Marsha Bansavage will be the facilitator for this series. Marsha has been an educator for thirty-six years. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in English literature, A Masters and sixth year degree in Art and the Humanities. She is an active member of the Connecticut Humanities Council. Her passions are teaching, reading, art appreciation and antiquing.
Funding by the Community Foundation of
Southeastern Connecticut
Love Our Libraries Initiative
Copies available at the circulation desk
Call 434-1684
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