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Book choices that evening are:
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman Capote
Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's. In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape—her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm. This volume also includes three of Capote's best-known stories, “House of Flowers,” “A Diamond Guitar,” and “A Christmas Memory,” which the Saturday Review called “one of the most moving stories in our language.”
This collection is truly a classic and will not disappoint. According to the late Pulitzer Prize-winning and prolific author Norman Mailer, “Truman Capote is the most perfect writer of my generation. He writes the best sentences word for word, rhythm upon rhythm.” Capote was twice awarded the O. Henry Prize for short fiction.
Liberation Day by George Saunders
The “best short-story writer in English” (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose—wickedly funny, unsentimental, and exquisitely tuned—Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: Here is a collection of prismatic, resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality. Together, these nine subversive, profound, and essential stories coalesce into a case for viewing the world with the same generosity and clear-eyed attention Saunders does, even in the most absurd of circumstances.
Buckle up, reader! This collection is a wild ride through Saunders’ fictional worlds, many of which will look familiar to the modern reader but adhere to norms and rules of Saunders’ invention. Imaginative writing presented in a satirical tone, Liberation Day is a New York Times bestseller. Saunders’ writing is described by NY Times as a "wild swirl of the bodily profane and the spiritual.”