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The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald

In eighteenth-century Germany, the impetuous student of philosophy who will later gain fame as the Romantic poet Novalis seeks his father's permission to wed his true philosophy—a plain, simple child named Sophie. The attachment shocks his family and friends. This brilliant young man, betrothed to a twelve-year-old dullard! How can it be? A literary sensation and a bestseller in England and the United States, The Blue Flower was one of eleven books chosen as an Editor's Choice by the New York Times Book Review. Regularly described as "elusive," "difficult," "a masterpiece," and "a writer's book," The Blue Flower was Fitzgerald's last, and the 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner in Fiction.

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This Fiction Book Club is open to Athenæum members only. The group meets IN PERSON on the 2nd Monday of the month. Titles will be chosen by group a month prior to each meeting.

Registration is valid only for this session.