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RETENTION: February AWCLS

  • Mon, February 24, 2014
  • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Friends Place Adult Day Services, 1960 Nantucket Drive

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Mrs. Poe by Lynn Cullen. (Christine Hart will lead the discussion.) Award-winning author Lynn Cullen delivers a pitch-perfect rendering of Edgar Allan Poe, his mistress’s tantalizing confession, and his wife’s frightening obsession.

 Please register in one of these five categories: 
  Chocolate (1 Volunteer needed)  Snack (3 Volunteers needed) 
  Libation: Red (2 Volunteers needed)     Just Bringing Myself 
  Libation: White (3 Volunteers needed)  
More about the book:

1845: New York City is a sprawling warren of gas lit streets and crowded avenues, bustling with new immigrants and old money, optimism and opportunity, poverty and crime. Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” is all the rageundefinedthe success of which a struggling poet like Frances Osgood can only dream. As a mother trying to support two young children after her husband’s cruel betrayal, Frances jumps at the chance to meet the illustrious Mr. Poe at a small literary gathering, if only to help her fledgling career. Although not a great fan of Poe’s writing, she is nonetheless overwhelmed by his magnetic presence and the surprising revelation that he admires her work. What follows is a flirtation, then a seduction, then an illicit affair . . . and with each clandestine encounter, Frances finds herself falling slowly and inexorably under the spell of her mysterious, complicated lover. But when Edgar’s frail wife Virginia insists on befriending Frances as well, the relationship becomes as dark and twisted as one of Poe’s tales. And like those gothic heroines whose fates are forever sealed, Frances begins to fear that deceiving Mrs. Poe may be as impossible as cheating death itself. . .


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