Once again, please join educator Tina Urman, faculty member at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies, as she reviews a series of recent literary best selling novels, while discussing the common thread woven into these works that captures our imagination, attention and sensibilities.


Thursday September 25th, 2008
12pm-1:30pm CR-2

The Painter From Shanghai
By Jennifer Cody Epstein

“This graceful, assured first novel tells the remarkable story of the long-lived affair between Frank Lloyd Wright, a passionate and impossible figure, and Mamah Cheney, a married woman whom Wright beguiled and led beyond the restraint of convention. It is engrossing, provocative reading.”—Scott Turow

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Thursday October 23rd, 2008
12pm-1:30pm CR-2

Loving Frank
By Nancy Horan

This brilliant novel with universal resonance tells the story of three people trying to survive in a city rife with the extreme fear of desperate times, and of the sorrowing cellist who plays undaunted in their midst. Steven Galloway has taken an extraordinary, imaginative leap to create a story that speaks powerfully to the dignity and generosity of the human spirit under extraordinary duress. –Knopf Canada

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Thursday November 20th, 2008
12pm-1:30pm CR-2

The Cellist of Sarajevo
By Steven Galloway

Reminiscent of Memoirs of a Geisha, a re-imagining of the life of Pan Yuliang and her transformation from prostitute to post-Impressionist. Down the muddy waters of the Yangtze River and into the seedy backrooms of "The Hall of Eternal Splendor," through the raucous glamour of prewar Shanghai and the bohemian splendor of 1920s Paris, and back to a China ripped apart by civil war and teetering on the brink of revolution: this novel tells the story of Pan Yuliang, one of the most talented—and provocative—Chinese artists of the twentieth century.

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