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THE “NO STRINGS ATTACHED BOOK CLUB”



Announcements
05/16/14

THE “NO STRINGS ATTACHED BOOK CLUB”

SPONSORED BY THE SOCIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PTOS

 

“THE ROAD”

Cormac McCarthy

“McCarthy may have just set to paper the definitive vision of the world after nuclear war, and in this recent age of relentless saber-rattling by the global powers, it's not much of a leap to feel his vision could be not far off the mark nor, sadly, right around the corner. McCarthy's Gnostic impressions of mankind have left very little place for love. But here the love of a desperate father for his sickly son transcends all else.

McCarthy has always written about the battle between light and darkness; the darkness usually comprises 99.9% of the world, while any illumination is the weak shaft thrown by a penlight running low on batteries. In The Road, those batteries are almost out--the entire world is, quite literally, dying--so the final affirmation of hope in the novel's closing pages is all the more shocking and maybe all the more enduring as the boy takes all of his father's (and McCarthy's) rage at the hopeless folly of man and lays it down, lifting up, in its place, the oddest of all things:

faith. --Dennis Lehane” (Amazon).

 

June 17, 2014 (Tuesday)

4:30 PM-5:30 PM

REMSEN CONFERENCE ROOM 4D44

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LYNN BRISTOL: LYNN.BRISTOL@USPTO.GOV