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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

PATRON PICKS--Les Miserables

Diana's pick:  Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo
 
Synopsis:
In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean--a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert--Hugo achieves the sort of rare imaginative resonance that allows a work of art to transcend its genre.
 
Diana says:  Even though it's not a modern book, the themes of loss, redemption, love, self-sacrifice, pursuit, mystery, etc. made it an easy read.  Spell-binding and a must-read.
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