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Book Club: 2 September @ 8pm - The Hopsmiths - Karl Ove Knausgaard: A Death in the Family
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a summer recess the next book club meeting is 2 September. This time we
are reading A Death in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgaard. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Hope to
see many of you there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Synopsis <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.5pt;line-height:16.8pt;background:
white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">In this utterly remarkable novel
Karl Ove Knausgaard writes with painful honesty about his childhood and teenage
years, his infatuation with rock music, his relationship with his loving yet
almost invisible mother and his distant and unpredictable father, and his
bewilderment and grief on his father's death. When Karl Ove becomes a father
himself, he must balance the demands of caring for a young family with his
determination to write great literature.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
16.8pt;background:white"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
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in the Family</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> is
a Proustian exploration of his past, in which Knausgaard creates a universal
story of the struggles, great and small, that we all face in our lives. <i>A
Death in the Family</i> is a profoundly serious, gripping and hugely
readable work written as if the author's very life were at stake.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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