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Event 

Book Club for Adults
Title:
Book Club for Adults
When:
October 05, 2010 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Where:
Bennett Cafe -
Category:
Reading and Book Clubs for Adults and Children

Description

The book selection will be, "Angelology" by Danielle Trussoni

Through the door opened by The DaVinci Code comes Trussoni’s entry in the hugger-mugger religious-society suspense subgenre, its textured prose as seamless as the never-ending stream of prayers offered up by St. Rose Convent’s Sisters of Perpetual Adoration. In that institution, celebrated for its angelic texts, lives Sister Evangeline, who prays, tends to library matters, and has become “a creature of obedience and duty” since her father brought her there when she was 12, two years after her mother’s death. The scholar Verlaine seeks concrete evidence linking the convent to Abigail Rockefeller, and before you can say, “I found this letter,” the multilayered process of Evangeline’s transformation has begun. The story takes flight in eminently readable fashion, effortlessly folding in technical information about things angelic and the religious life. It’s hard not to enjoy the secrets unearthed and appreciate what wings are to the angels who secretly walk among us—“a symbol of their blood, their breeding, . . . their position in the community. Displaying them properly brought power and prestige.” Powerfully entertaining. --Whitney Scott

Venue

Bennett Cafe
Venue:
Bennett Cafe

Description

Located on the corner of Court Place and Richmond Road.  Parking for Bennett Cafe Patrons only.  Musuem parking is available at 441 Clarke Avenue.

 

Bennett House c.1839; addition c.1854
Built as part of a real estate development near the Third County Courthouse, this Greek Revival-style residence was home to shipping merchant John Bennett and his family from c.1848-1917. The building later served as a restaurant.

 

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