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Love 2 Read Shopping Night

Tuesday 14 February until 8pm

Join us to celebrate the Launch of Nation Year of Reading 2012. www.love2read.org.au

Jeffreys Last Tuesday Book Club:

The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides

"There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel." Anthony Trollope It's the early 1980s. In American colleges, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real life, in the form of two very different guys, intervenes. Leonard Bankhead -- charismatic loner and college Darwinist -- suddenly turns up in a seminar, and soon Madeleine finds herself in a highly charged erotic and intellectual relationship with him. At the same time, her old friend Mitchell Grammaticus -- who's been reading Christian mysticism and generally acting strange -- resurfaces, obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is destined to be his mate.

Purchase the book to reserve your place. Tuesday, 28 February at 7.00 pm.

Jeffreys Brain Food Book Group:

Amedeo ('Beloved of God') Modigliani was considered to be the quintessential bohemian artist, his legend almost as infamous as Van Gogh's. In Modigliani's time, his work was seen as an oddity: contemporary with the Cubists but not part of their movement. His work was a link between such portraitists as Whistler, Sargent, and Toulouse-Lautrec and that of the Art Deco painters of the 1920s as well as the new approaches of Gauguin, Cézanne, and Picasso. Jean Cocteau called Modigliani 'our aristocrat' and said, 'There was something like a curse on this very noble boy. He was beautiful. Alcohol and misfortune took their toll on him.' In this major new biography, Meryle Secrest, one of our most admired biographers—whose work has been called 'enthralling' (The Wall Street Journal); 'rich in detail, scrupulously researched, and sympathetically written' (The New York Review of Books) — now gives us a fully realized portrait of one of the twentieth century's master painters and sculptors: his upbringing, a Sephardic Jew from an impoverished but genteel Italian family; his going to Paris to make his fortune; his striking good looks

Purchase the book to reserve your place. Wednesday 15 February at 11 am.