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Laguna Beach Books monthly Book Club is Wednesday January 20 2016 at 6:30pm.
Laguna Beach Books is located at 1200 South Coast Highway.
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January Book is All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren.
All the King’s Men traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie Stark, a fictional character loosely based on Governor Huey “”Kingfish”” Long of Louisiana.
Stark begins his political career as an idealistic man of the people but soon becomes corrupted by success and caught between dreams of service and an insatiable lust for power, culminating in a novel that Sinclair Lewis pronounced, on the book’s release in 1946, “one of our few national galleries of character.”” ”
Robert Penn Warren (1905 1989) won three Pulitzer Prizes, the National Book Award, the National Medal for Literature, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
In 1986 he was named the country s first poet laureate.
Laguna Beach Books Book Club is on the third Wednesday of every month at 6:30 pm.
Everyone is welcomed to attend.
This is a Laguna Beach free community event.
Laguna Beach Books February 2016 Book Club
Wednesday February 17 2016: The Stranger by Albert Camuswas.
Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed “the nakedness of man faced with the absurd.” First published in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.
Albert Camuswas born in Algeria in 1913.
During World War II, he joined the Resistance movement in Paris, then became editor-in-chief of the newspaper Combat during the Liberation.
A novelist, playwright, and essayist, he is most famous for his novels The Stranger and The Plague.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.
