The library will be CLOSED on Friday, July 4 for Independence Day - but you can still attend Music by the Sea!
Every Friday, at 11:00 am, on the library’s YouTube Channel and Facebook Page, the library will stream a brand new recording of local thespian, Joseph Coté reading aloud selections from a wide variety of fascinating and entertaining books of fiction and non-fiction.
For August 1, Coté will read aloud from Graham Swift’s novel Last Orders.
Summary: Four men gather in a London pub. They have taken it upon themselves to carry out the last orders of Jack Dodds, master butcher, and deliver his ashes to the sea at Margate.
For reasons best known to herself, Jack’s widow, Amy, declines to join them.
On the surface a simple tale of an increasingly bizarre day’s outing, this Booker-prize winning, internationally acclaimed novel is a resonant and classic exploration of the complexity and courage of ordinary lives.
As they drive towards the fulfillment of their mission, their errand becomes an extraordinary journey into their collective and individual pasts.
Intensely local but overwhelmingly universal, faithful to the fleeting rhythms and accidental eloquence of everyday speech but also to the timeless truths of life and death, it succeeds in being comic and heart-stopping, affectionate and wise, and in conferring on its stumbling, disappointed characters an enduring decency, dignity and depth Braiding these men’s voices, and that of Jack’s widow, into a choir of sorrow and resentment, passion and regret, Swift creates a testament to a changing England and to enduring mortality.
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Thoughts to share? Book ideas to suggest?
Contact Joseph at friday-explorations@usa.net