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 four books under discussion merited the Man Booker Prize. This is the first class session.
Sherry and cookies are available for refreshment. Participants should read the listed book prior to class.
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.
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