The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is awarded each year for the best new novel written in English and published in the UK. Join Lisbeth Strimple Fuisz, a lecturer in the English department at Georgetown University, in a spirited series of lectures and informal dialogues that explore why each of four books under discussion merited the Man Booker Prize.
Sherry and cookies are available for refreshment. Participants should read the first book prior to class.
Oct. 20 Possession by A.S. Byatt
Set in the present day and the Victorian era, this novel follows two modern-day academics as they research the previously unknown love life between famous fictional poets.
Nov. 17 The Sea by John Banville
A retired art historian attempts to reconcile himself to the deaths of those whom he loved as a child and as an adult.
Dec. 15 The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
The relationship between two men, friends since childhood, as a meditation on memory and aging.
Jan. 26 Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (Rescheduled)
A fictionalized biography of Thomas Cromwell follows his rise to power in the court of Henry VIII.
