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SUMMARY:Wednesday Morning Bookies: What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
DESCRIPTION:What We Can Know by Ian McEwan. 2014: At a dinner for close 
 friends and colleagues\, renowned poet Francis Blundy honors his wife's 
 birthday by reading aloud a new poem dedicated to her\, 'A Corona for 
 Vivien'. Much wine is drunk as the guests listen\, and a delicious meal 
 consumed. Little does anyone gathered around the candlelit table know that 
 for generations to come people will speculate about the message of this 
 poem\, a copy of which has never been found\, and which remains an enduring 
 mystery. 2119: Just over one hundred years in the future\, much of the 
 western world has been submerged by rising seas following a catastrophic 
 nuclear accident. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the 
 world that has been lost. In the water-logged south of what used to be 
 England\, Thomas Metcalfe\, a lonely scholar and researcher\, longs for the 
 early twenty-first century as he chases the ghost of one poem\, 'A Corona 
 for Vivian'. How wild and full of risk their lives were\, thinks Thomas\, 
 as he pores over the archives of that distant era\, captivated by the 
 freedoms and possibilities of human life at its zenith. When he stumbles 
 across a clue that may lead to the elusive poem's discovery\, a story is 
 revealed of entangled loves and a brutal crime that destroy his assumptions 
 about people he thought he knew intimately well.
LOCATION:West Windsor Room 2/3\, West Windsor Branch
ORGANIZER;CN="Dennis Beebe":MAILTO:dbeebe@mcl.org
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CONTACT;CN="Dennis Beebe":MAILTO:dbeebe@mcl.org
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URL:https://events.mcl.org/event/16117531
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