Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee Vs. Galore by Michael Crummey

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Bracket here:

The championship game! Due to the nature of this exercise, we have now talked about these two finalists numerous times. The repetition may be too much for some readers. I think I’ve found a solution. Like Bird from Kenzaburo Oe’s A Personal Matter, the title match will not be decided by figuring out which book is the right one, but the winner will be decided by remembering who we are, and what we are doing here.

We are the Voyage Out Book Group. We meet the last Sunday of every month at BookPeople in Austin, TX. We’ve been doing so for over four years. We pick challenging books in the hopes that a group can read better…

The Voyage Out Book Group’s Reader’s Guide to Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson

 

 

Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson

Vintage

192 pages

9780679744474

 

 

Contemporary Female Novelists from England

 

Other Books From Region:

Pat Barker’s Life Class

Zadie Smith’s NW

 

 

Jeanette Winterson is one of the most talented, controversial, and perplexing novelists of our time. Although she has held many labels, Feminist and Experimentalist pop to my mind first, her writing has found a difficult time being pushed into a clean, marketable box. Good.

Born August 27^th, 1959, she was adopted by a Pentecostal working class family. Her childhood was spent with this vehemently devout family in a small, factory town. This rigid upbringing lead her to not only rebel, but to rebel by sneaking out back to read books. Books were not always…