Guilty Conscience Book Group

Thursday, March 3 at 7:00pm

Michael P. Coords Activity Room

Join us as we read and discuss The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Stern. Sterne’s great masterpiece of bawdy humor and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it, with a rich metafictional narrative that might classify it as the first ‘postmodern’ novel. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate ‘hero’ Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby, and a host of other characters, including Dr Slop, Corporal Trim and the parson Yorick. A joyful celebration of the endless possibilities of the art of fiction, Tristram Shandy is also a wry demonstration of its limitations. Books are available in the Village Center now.