{"id":7233,"date":"2015-11-02T13:09:56","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T18:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=7233"},"modified":"2020-05-07T13:29:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:29:47","slug":"november-reading-group-selection-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2015\/11\/02\/november-reading-group-selection-4\/","title":{"rendered":"November Reading Group Selection"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"paintedbird\"The Book Beat reading group selection for November, 2015 is The Painted Bird <\/strong><\/em>by Jerzy Kosinski<\/strong>. The group will meet at Goldfish Tea (117 W 4th St, Royal Oak, MI 48067)<\/span><\/strong> on Wednesday, December 2nd<\/strong> at 7 PM.<\/strong> Books are discounted 15% at Book Beat. All are welcome!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOf all the remarkable fiction that emerged from World War II, nothing stands higher than Jerzy Kosinski\u2019s The Painted Bird. A magnificent work of art, and a celebration of the individual will. No one who reads it will be unmoved by it. The Painted Bird enriches our literature and our lives.\u201d\u2014Jonathan Yardley, The Miami Herald<\/em><\/p>\n

A harrowing story that follows the wanderings of a boy abandoned by his parents during World War II, The Painted Bird<\/em> is a dark masterpiece that examines the proximity of terror and savagery to innocence and love.<\/p>\n

The book will often enter hallucinatory flights, merging the horror of World War II with the grotesqueness of Hieronymus Bosch.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the best. . . . Written with deep sincerity and sensitivity.\u201d\u2014Elie Wiesel, The New York Times Book Review<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cA powerful blow on the mind because it is so carefully kept within the margins of probability and fact.\u201d\u2014Arthur Miller<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cExtraordinary . . . literally staggering . . . one of the most powerful books I have ever read.\u201d\u2014Richard Kluger, Harper\u2019s Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n

The novel proper, without tidying-up, is purely and simply a panoply of horror, expertly wrought and disgusting. There is no more parable or symbolism here than there was at Buchenwald. Jerzy is a brilliant writer, but let the reader beware. It’s very hard to take. — Kirkus<\/em> review<\/a>, 1965<\/p>\n

Jerzy Kosinski<\/strong> (\u00a0 June 14, 1933 \u2013 May 3, 1991), born J\u00f3zef Lewinkopf, was an award-winning Polish-American novelist and two-time President of the American Chapter of P.E.N., who wrote primarily in English. Born in Poland, he survived World War II and, as a young man, emigrated to the U.S., where he became a citizen. He was known for various novels, among them The Painted Bird (1965) and Being There (1971), which was adapted as an Academy Award-winning film (1979)<\/p>\n

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The Book Beat reading group selection for November, 2015 is The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski. The group will meet at Goldfish Tea (117 W 4th St, Royal Oak, MI 48067) on Wednesday, December 2nd at 7 PM. Books are discounted 15% at Book Beat. All are welcome! “Of all the remarkable fiction that emerged […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,25,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","category-reading-group","category-world-lit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}