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Lionel Shriver - So Much For That
So Much for That (Hardcover)
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Harper, 03/01/2010
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Upcoming Events
- Monday, March 22 - 7:00pm
- Tuesday, March 23 - 10:30am
- Tuesday, March 23 - 7:00pm
- Wednesday, March 24 - 7:00pm
- Thursday, March 25 - 7:00pm
- Friday, March 26 - 7:00pm
Spring Member Sale
Politics & Prose Spring Storewide Member Sale
This coming weekend - all weekend long - nearly everything currently on our shelves is discounted for Politics & Prose members. Most books are 20% off, most CDs and DVDs are 15% off. If you are not yet a member, it's a great time to sign up and take advantage of our discount opportunities.
And if you can't make it into the store, the same discounts will also be applied to members' purchases online at www.politics-prose.com from Friday, March 19, 12:01 a.m. through Sunday, March 21, 11:59 p.m.
No events are scheduled on Saturday and Sunday.
National Capital Area ACLU’s 2010 Bill of Rights Awards Dinner
Thursday March 18 is the big night when we receive the ACLU’s Edgerton Special Recognition Award for "demonstrating how the Freedoms of Speech and Press contribute to the public good." In accepting this prestigious award, we will be recounting our early months, which set the course for 25 years devoted to presenting authors who fervently championed these First Amendment freedoms. One of the first was Herblock, the intrepid political cartoonist from the Washington Post, whose book, Herblock Through the Looking Glass, had just been published. In our first few years, we also hosted I.F (Izzy) Stone for his contrarian and controversial The Trial of Socrates; Anthony Lukas for Common Ground - his groundbreaking study of court-ordered busing to integrate the Boston public schools, and Marian Wright Edelman for Families in Peril.
During these 25 years, we have quite regularly seen Politics & Prose described both in print and online as a leftist bookstore. What our critics don’t understand is that our commitment to freedom of speech dictates that we carry books across the entire political spectrum. And the biggest surprise of all? Karl Rove’s Courage and Consequence, displayed prominently since its arrival in the store last week, is now #8 on our bestseller list!
PASSOVER BEGINS
Passover begins March 29 this year. Click here to see and buy some of our selections of Haggadahs and related books.
TICKETS FOR SALE NOW
Wednesday, April 7, 8:15 p.m.
at the Avalon Theatre
5612 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
(Metro: Friendship Heights)
DAVID REMNICK (in conversation with MICHELE NORRIS of N.P.R.)
THE BRIDGE: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama (Knopf, $29.95)
Using interviews and letters, David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, has expanded his magazine profile of Obama to tell the 44th president’s life story and trace the remarkable political journey that led to the White House.
Click here for two free event tickets with purchase of the book or click here for a single $10 ticket each without book purchase.
Wednesday, April 14, 7 p.m.
at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
600 I Street, NW
(Metro: Gallery Place - Chinatown)
YANN MARTEL
BEATRICE AND VIRGIL (Spiegel & Grau, $24)
Martel won the 2002 Man Booker Prize for The Life of Pi, his story of a boy and a tiger adrift at sea. His new novel, featuring a donkey, a howler monkey, and an enigmatic taxidermist, is an equally whimsical and philosophical consideration of truth and deception, responsibility and complicity.
Click here for two free author event admission tickets with purchase of the $24 book from P&P or click here for a single $12 ticket without book purchase.

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The second essay, "The Presence of the Past," is full of nuggets. "Whatever course of action they follow, it is not for us Germans to raise objections or feel indignation." On the other hand, "Whoever remembers wants the right to forget." In the new generation, the literature of the Holocaust can give up some of its prominence, and it is important to administer the Jewish sites in a way that never seems patronizing.
In another essay called "Forgiveness and Reconciliation," Schlink distinguishes between forgetting, forgiveness, and reconciliation. Read these essays for clarity about difficult issues. Read them also for their beautiful writing.