September 2006: A New Life (Malamud)

Post date: Jan 07, 2010 8:48:7 PM

Usually we read the first-year Smith class assignment for our September meeting, but they read Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder which our club read earlier this year. Instead we read A New Life by Bernard Malamud ©1961 and had quite an interesting discussion at Nancy's, with our signature age range from class of '47 to '05. Janet had read a biography of Malamud by his daughter, and there were several parallels between this novel and his life. Our discussion did not center on starting a new life in the West (as several of us have done), but more on the relationships and dynamics between characters in the book.