Are Dicky Vanderwhile, Wallace Wolcott, Bitsy, Peaches, Hank and Anne Grandyn as essential to Katey’s “story” as Tinker and Eve? If so, what role do you think each plays in fashioning the Katey of the future?Ģ.) Katey observes at one point that Agatha Christie “doles out her little surprises at the carefully calibrated pace of a nanny dispensing sweets to the children in her care.” Something similar could be said of how Katey doles out information about herself. You may submit your thoughts or questions to me at my Contact page on this site.ġ.) At the outset, Rules of Civility appears to be about the interrelationship between Katey, Tinker, and Eve but then events quickly lead Eve and Tinker off stage. What follows are some questions for discussion. So, if you’ve come this far, I owe you my heartfelt thanks. We started with Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past and have since worked through the works of Twain and Faulkner, Cervantes and Marquez, Tolstoy and Nabokov – meeting once a month for dinner, dwelling on our favorite passages, on themes and ambiguities, sharing our perspectives.Īs someone who has written quietly for twenty years, the notion that a group might gather to discuss a book of mine seems something so fantastic it must be a mirage.
Five years ago, three friends and I set out to read some of the “great books” – or those works of literature which would merit re-reading several times over the course of our lives.
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