FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 11, 2004
Contact:
(512) 974-7528
Fax: (512) 974-7442
Community discussion groups about the Mayor's Book Club selection, "All the Pretty Horses", begin August 18
Along with Mayor Will Wynn and the University of Texas Humanities Institute, the Austin Public Library invites Austinites from every neighborhood and from teens on up to read this year's selected book, Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses, and then come participate in one (or all!) of the 12 free public discussions that will be held in branch libraries throughout the city between August 18 and September 29. Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses is the third annual selection of the "Mayor's Book Club—Keep Austin Reading Campaign," a city-wide initiative designed to broaden and deepen an appreciation of literature through reading and discussion. An award-winning novel, the book is the story of John Grady Cole, a sixteen-year-old who in 1949 finds himself the last of a generation of west-Texas ranchers. Set in the southwest, McCarthy's sixth novel is the first volume of "The Border Trilogy."
The Austin Public Library partners with The University of Texas Humanities Institute to provide free programs. In addition to the diversity of the group participants, part of what makes the Mayor's Book Club discussions so exciting is that each discussion leader is an accomplished UT faculty member who approaches the book from a different angle of interest and expertise. For additional information call (512) 974-7400 or visit the Web site at www.cityofaustin.org/library.
