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June Book Club-- Prisoner's Dilemma by Richard Powers

Event Details

Date/Time:
Mon, June 02, 2014
06:30PM - 08:30PM
Venue:
Avid Reader at Tower (near Tower Cafe)
Location:
1600 Broadway Street, Sacramento CA 95818
Map address
Registration Period:
03/16/2014-06/02/2014
Price:
Bring your own refreshments
Contact:
Martha Alvarez, '08, MA '09
805-588-5594

Eddie Hobson Sr., father of four, is full of secrets.  Sometime history teacher, quiz master, black humorist and virtuoso invalid. While attempting to keep his fainting spells hidden from his family - who tries to discover the nature of his sickness- he is in the process of constructing a secret project--a fictitious reality he calls Hobstown. He is certain that Hobstown will save the greater world, everything that is in it and cure his ailments, but his family and their dysfunctional communication style is starting to intercede. Read along as Eddie tries to distract his family from current concerns through riddles and quizzes while historical themes are uncovered in the structure of Hobstown.  A dazzling novel of compassion and imagination, Prisoner's Dilemma is a story of the power of invalid experience.

 

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