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Page 2 Screen Book Club In-Person

Join Washington-Centerville Library and Town Hall Theater for Page 2 Screen Book Club! Each month participants will read a book and then meet at Town Hall Theater to watch the correlating movie. A discussion comparing the two will occur afterwards.

Monday, Oct 14:

The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

We are introduced to the suave Tom Ripley, a young striver seeking to leave behind his past as an orphan bullied for being a “sissy.” Newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan, Ripley meets a wealthy industrialist who hires him to bring his playboy son, Dickie Greenleaf, back from gallivanting in Italy. Soon Ripley’s fascination with Dickie’s debonair lifestyle turns obsessive as he finds himself enraged by Dickie’s ambivalent affections for Marge, a charming American dilettante, and Ripley begins a deadly game.

273 pages / R / 2h 15m

Copies of the book will be distributed at the September meeting or visit Centerville or Woodbourne Library's front desk to pick up yours. Participants are encouraged to read the book prior to attending the discussion.