APPRIL.MEETING RECAP

The April meeting of the Pittsburgh Gay Book Club will take place on APRIL 21, 2010! We will be having a special meeting at the BORDERS BOOK STORE in Monroeville, PA at 7:00 p.m. Join us as we discuss "A Single Man" and plan our May and June Meetings. (A tentative 'meet the author' meeting for May, and possibly having our June meeting at the Warhol Museum is in the works.)

MAP TO THE MONROEVILLE LOCATION
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APRIL BOOK SELECTION MADE!

OUR APRIL BOOK CLUB SELECTION IS

"A Single Man" by Christopher Isherwood

The author's favorite of his own novels. When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, and determines to persist in the routines of his daily life; the course of A Single Man spans twenty-four hours in an ordinary day. An Englishman and a professor living in suburban Southern California, he is an outsider in every way, and his internal reflections and interactions with others reveal a man who loves being alive despite everyday injustices and loneliness. Wry, suddenly manic, constantly funny, surprisingly sad, this novel catches the texture of life itself.

"A testimony to Isherwood's undiminished brilliance as a novelist."
—Anthony Burgess

"An absolutely devastating, unnerving, brilliant book."
—Stephen Spender

"Just as his Prater Violet is the best novel I know about the movies, Isherwood's A Single Man, published in 1964, is one of the first and best novels of the modern gay liberation movement."
—Edmund White