EVENT
Waterworks Book Club
Discussion of the Book "The Late George Apley"
September 4, 2019
10:00am–11:00am
The Waterworks Book Club returns this fall with our discussion of The Late George Apley by John P. Marquand. Whether you’ve read the book cover-to-cover or haven’t picked it up yet, all you need to bring is your curiosity – and maybe your coffee!
The Waterworks Book Club will meet Wednesday, September 4th at 10:00 AM in our museum’s Overlook Gallery. There is no admission fee. The Book Club meets the first Wednesday of each month, and meetings are led by Waterworks volunteer and retired librarian Mary Ann Tricarico.
About the Book:
A modern classic restored to print — the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that charts the diminishing fortunes of a distinguished Boston family in the early years of the 20th century. Sweeping us into the inner sanctum of Boston society, into the Beacon Hill town houses and exclusive private clubs where only the city’s wealthiest and most powerful congregate, the novel gives us — through the story of one family and its patriarch, the recently deceased George Apley — the portrait of an entire society in transition. Gently satirical and rich with drama, the novel moves from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression as it projects George Apley’s world — and subtly reveals a life in which success and accomplishment mask disappointment and regret, a life of extreme and enviable privilege that is nonetheless an imperfect life.
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