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Nov/Dec 2016 Group Read: Summer by Edith Wharton
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"Considered by some to be her finest work, Edith Wharton's "Summer" created a sensation when first published in 1917, as it was one of the first novels to deal honestly with a young woman's sexual awakening. "Summer" is the story of proud and independent Charity Royall, a child of mountain moonshiners adopted by a family in a poor New England town, who has a passionate love affair with Lucius Harney, an educated young man from the city. Wharton broke the conventions of woman's romantic fiction by making Charity a thoroughly contemporary woman--in touch with her feelings and sexuality, yet kept from love and the larger world she craves by the overwhelming pressures of environment and heredity. Praised for its realism and candor by such writers as Joseph Conrad and Henry James and compared to Flaubert's "Madame Bovary," "Summer" was one of Wharton's personal favorites of all her novels and remains as fresh and relevant today as when it was first written."
You have all of November to read the book and then we'll start discussion in December in this folder. Just like last time, all the discussion questions will be SEPARATE topics under this folder.
No discussion questions will be posted until December.
***We set these discussion questions up with the assumption that members have read the book and are ready to discuss all aspects of it. Feel free to read through or participate in the discussion even if you have not finished the book, but know that there will likely be spoilers.***