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4TH OF JULY The celebration sponsored by the Library for the 4th promises to be an exceptionally good one - lots to eat and see and do. So do plan to spend your holiday in your home county, at your own library. BOOKS The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath - This extraordinary work chronicles the crackup of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful - slowly going under, and maybe for the last time. Step by careful step, Sylvia Plath takes us with Esther through a painful month in New York as a contest-winning junior editor on a magazine, her increasingly strained relationships with her mother and the boy she dated in college, and eventually, devastatingly, into the madness itself. 'Hie reader is drawn into her breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes completely real and even rational. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is rare inany novel. Thomas Wolfe, by Andrew Turnbull - The story of Thomas Wolfe, ranging from Asheville, North Carolina, to Berlin, Germany, contains a large cast of characters. Among the men and women close to him - his family, his teachers, other writers - two people hold crucial places in Thomas Wolfe. One is Aline Bernstein, the gifted stage designer who gave him understanding and devotion in their intense, agonizing love affair The other is Maxwell Perkins, to whom Wolfe became a son as well as the most fascinating and exhausting problem of his editorial career. Andrew Turn|bllU'3 biography, filled with stories of Wolfe’s outrageous and often comic behavior, closes with a precise, moving account of the illness at Seattle and the death at Johns Hopkins which is a superlative piece of biographical writing. LIBRARY HOURS: Wednesday and Friday, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
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