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July 2008 Selection

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

 by David Wroblewski

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ON THE AIR

The Odyssey Bookshop is one of five independent bookstores participating in WAMC's Roundtable on Tuesday mornings, just after the 10:00 news. People from the Odyssey will be on about once a month, talking about our favorite books. 

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The Odyssey Bookshop
9 College St.
S. Hadley, MA 01075

413-534-7307
800-540-7307
fax 413-532-3654

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The Odyssey Bookshop  

Located in the five-college region of western Massachusetts, across the street from Mount Holyoke College, The Odyssey Bookshop is the largest independent, locally owned bookstore in the area. We proudly feature a wide selection of new, used, antiquarian and bargain book and more than 100 author events and book signings annually, more than any other venue in western Massachusetts. We also host a  Signed First Edition Club, and a free Frequent Buyer Program.

Our Summer 2008 Newsletter 
and Staff Picks 

Summer Entertainment Returns
to the Odyssey and 
The Village Commons


New: Reserve a seat online.

Please take a moment to reserve your seat for any of these events online. Reserving helps us better plan for the event, and helps you by assuring that if there are any changes or cancellations, you will be contacted immediately.

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You may also reserve a seat by calling 534-7307


The Late July / August Calendar is here

Upcoming highlights:


August 12 • Tuesday • 7 pm

Tom Fels

Farm Friends: From the Late Sixties to the West Seventies and Beyond

Farm Friends is a memoir and a study of the generation of the 1960s. Beginning on a communal farm in 1969, it continues as a personal chronicle of the author and his extended family up to the present day. From the greenhouse in the spring to haying in the summer; from cold, wood-heated winters to abundant home-cooked dinners in the fall, back-to-the-land communards of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s made their way in a new and unfamiliar world. Later, relocated in cities and towns across the country, they used what they had learned to continue to explore and to influence life as they found it in the late 20th and early 21st century. The author’s narrative traces the earlier roots and later pursuits of some of the many participants, companions and friends attracted to this new way of life. Written in a clear and literate manner, Farm Friends is intended as readable history, stories interwoven into an ongoing narrative that suggests the fabric of an entire generation.

“Farm Friends is a baby-boomer’s Blithedale Romance. Fels reminds the rest of us that the boomers really did make revolution even if it didn’t turn out the way they planned.” — Debby Applegate, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Most Famous Man in America


August 13 • Wednesday • 7 pm

Victor S. Navasky

Mission Accomplished! Or How We Won the War in Iraq

Mission Accomplished! Or How We Won the War in Iraq is the definitive collection -- systematically categorized, indexed, and footnoted for your convenience -- of authoritative misinformation, disinformation, misunderstanding, miscalculation, egregious prognostication, boo-boos, and just plain lies, about the Iraq War. At once an entertainment, a cautionary tale, a critique of mass media, a reference tool, and a postwar manifesto, Mission Accomplished! presents, as no book has before, the collective wisdom of all those who are presumed to know what they are talking about on the subject of America's adventure in Iraq.

“Having amassed an aircraft carrier’s worth of lies about the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq, Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky can now crow ‘Mission Accomplished!.’ Indeed.” -- Vanity Fair


August 14 • Thursday • 7 pm

Jennifer Haigh

The Condition

The Condition tells the story of the McKotches, a proper New England family that comes apart during one fateful summer. The year is 1976, and the family, has embarked on its annual vacation at the Captain’s House, the grand old family retreat on Cape Cod. One day on the beach, Frank is struck by an image he cannot forget: his thirteen-year-old daughter, Gwen, strangely infantile in her child-sized bikini, standing a full head shorter than her younger cousin Charlotte. At that moment he knows a truth that something is terribly wrong with his only daughter. The McKotch family will never be the same. Compassionate yet unflinchingly honest, witty and almost painfully astute, The Condition explores the power of family mythologies, the self-delusions, denials, and inescapable truths that forever bind fathers and mothers and siblings.

“Compelling; highly recommended.” – Library Journal

 

 

 

 




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