This is the 2002 RIF RAFF BOOK CLUB list.

We will try to meet the last Sunday of each month unless there is a conflict. Check the web site at http://condor.depaul.edu/~rstuba for meeting details. You can e-mail comments prior to the meeting date to: rifraffbc@hotmail.com


SUNDAY January 27, 2002

Being Dead

by Jim Crace

Zoologist murder story that leads to a paradoxical way to celebrate life.

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SUNDAY February 24, 2002

Our Nig: Or Sketches From the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House in the North. Showing That Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There.

by Harriet E. Wilson

The title says it all for this 19th century piece of literature.

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SUNDAY March 31, 2002

The Good Earth

by Pearl S. Buck

The novel about peasant life in China in the 1920's was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1932. The book follows the life of Wang Lung from his beginnings as an impoverished peasant to his eventual position as a wealthy landowner.

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SUNDAY April 28, 2002

Armed and Dangerous

by Gina Gallo

The memoirs of a Chicago policewoman. Based on the author's own experience.

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SUNDAY May 26, 2002

Memories of a Warsaw Ghetto Fighter

by Kazik (Simha Rotem)

The memoirs of a man who with others in the Warsaw ghetto, fought the Nami's.

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SUNDAY June 30, 2002

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

An experimental text that looks back to the great age of narration. In one sense a comedy, in another, a tragedy.

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SUNDAY July 28, 2002

The Altar of the Body

by Duff Brenna

This high school dropout, ex-hobo, farmer, paratrooper turned English professor writes of a dirty world.

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SUNDAY August 25, 2002

Angel's Flight

by Michael Connelly

Harry investigates a murder of a celebrity lawyer. He learns all the prime suspects are his fellow police officers.

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SUNDAY September 29, 2002

The Corrections

by Jonathon Franzen

Sexy comedy about a quirky family with everyone's lives swirling out of control.

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SUNDAY October 27, 2002

The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream

by Paulo Coelho

This is a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a highly unique situation.

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SUNDAY November 24, 2002

Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival

by Velma Wallis

A culturally famous book, it's a tribal legend about 2 old women, left behind to die, who instead went on to survive and thrive.


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