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| Barbara Kingsolver "The power is in the balance: we are our injuries as much as we are our successes." |
Date: Thursday 12 February 2015
Time:
12 Noon for 12h30
Venue: The Pavilion at Kelvin Grove Club, Cape Town
Speaker: Barbara Kingsolver
Cost: R200
Barbara
Kingsolver and her husband are visiting South Africa and we have the pleasure
of hosting her. It is also
our first get together this year and we would like to take this opportunity of
wishing all a happy and successful 2015.
Kingsolver was named one of the most important writers of the 20th
Century by Writers Digest. In 2000 she
received the National Humanities Medal,
America’s highest honour for service through the arts. Critical acclaim for her
books includes multiple awards from the American Booksellers Association and
the American Library Association, among many others.
The Poisonwood Bible was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Orange Prize, and won the national book
award of South Africa before being named an Oprah
Book Club selection. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle won
numerous prizes including the James Beard
Award. The Lacuna won Britain’s prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010. In 2011, Kingsolver was awarded
the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for
the body of her work.
Kingsolver
has been honoured by her peers and embraced by readers as one of the most
popular literary novelists of modern times. The Dallas Morning News called her
latest novel, Flight Behaviour" as close to a truly perfect book as I have ever
read."
Exclusive Books Cavendish will have a
selection of her books on sale for those who would like to buy any of them.
The
menu is a starter and a main course with coffee to follow. There will be a
limited cash bar on the day; the Kelvin House Wine is reasonable and highly
recommended. As always a Vegetarian
option is available, please let us know any dietary preferences when making your booking.
If
you cancel with less than 24 hours’ notice we will try to fill your place, but
if not successful, you will be liable to pay.
Information or book
by email sandybailey@telkomsa.net or telephone on 021 685 8016.
Another Kingsolver quote from her book Animal Dreams
“The very least you can do in your life is to
figure out what you hope for. The most you can do is live inside that hope,
running down its hallways, touching the walls on both sides.”
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