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MorseLife Literary Society Announces 2010 Season of Breakfasts with Celebrated Authors
West Palm Beach, FL (May 21, 2009) – MorseLife is pleased to announce its 2010 season of the MorseLife Literary Society, its series of breakfast presentations with celebrated authors of some of this country’s award-winning and acclaimed books.
MorseLife Literary Society begins on Thursday, January 14th with Elizabeth Strout, author of Olive Kitteridge, the 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction, and continues with authors in February and March.
All events will be held at The Colony Pavilion, 155 Hammon Avenue in Palm Beach with registration at 8:30 am and breakfast at 9:00 am.
The schedule is as follows:
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Elizabeth Strout
Author of Olive Kitteridge
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Winner of this year’s 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Olive Kitteridge is a collection of 13 short stories set in small-town Maine bound together by its title character, a retired school teacher. A story of a lounge singer haunted by a past romance; of a former student who has lost the will to live; of an adult child of Olive, who feels tyrannized by her own irrational insensitivities; and of Olive’s husband Henry, who finds it loyalty to their marriage both a blessing and a curse. Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human condition – its conflicts, tragedies and joys, and the endurance it requires, as its title character finds a deeper understanding of herself -
Joseph O’Neill
Author of Netherland
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Selected from the New York Times Book Review list of “10 Best Books of 2008,” Netherland is described as Joseph O’Neill’s seductive ode to New York, narrated by its protagonist, a Dutch financier, whose privileged Manhattan life with his wife and son is upended by the events of 9/11. In his review, Dwight Garner of the New York Times called it “the wittiest, angriest, most exacting and most desolate work of fiction we’ve yet had about life in New York and London after the World Trade Center fell.” Joseph O’Neill won the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for this groundbreaking novel. He is also the author of two novels, This Is the Life and The Breezes, and a work of non-fiction, Blood-Dark Trade: A Family History, which was named by the New York Times as among the notable books in 2002. O’Neill also writes literary and cultural criticism for Atlantic Monthly. -
Lisa See
Author of Shanghai Girls
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Shanghai Girls, Lisa See’s seventh upcoming novel, chronicles the lives of two sisters who come to Los Angeles in arranged marriages and face, among other things, the pressures put upon Chinese-Americans during the anti-Communist mania of the 1950s. See, a Chinese American writer and novelist, worked for 13 years for Publishers Weekly and has written for Vogue, Self and More. As an author, it is clear that the Chinese side of her family has had a great impact on her life and work. Her books include On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family, Flower Net, The Interior, Dragon Bones, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Peony in Love.
According to Mary Alice Pappas, Senior Vice President of MorseLife Foundation, the cost for the series is $375 per person, which includes breakfast and copies of the books.
“Our inaugural MorseLife Literary Society last winter was so well received, with attendees excited about joining together in their love of reading, and discussing books with those who created them,” she said. “It is wonderful to again host some of this country’s most accomplished authors in 2010.”
For more information about the MorseLife Literary Society, please call (561) 209-6103, or email MorseLife at cindyo@morselife.org. Space is limited.
MorseLife is a nationally-recognized provider of health care and residential services for seniors and their families in Palm Beach County. A charitable, not-for-profit organization, its programs include short-term rehabilitation, long term care, independent and assisted living, home and community-based services, case management, adult day center, and research and training. Founded in 1983, MorseLife has built a reputation and tradition of caring for seniors with excellence, dignity and compassion -- honoring senior living -- now and forever. For more information, visit www.morselife.org.