Literary Book Group with Mark Scarbrough

Red Sky in Morning by Paul Lynch (2013)
Thursday, May 21, 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. or 7:30 – 9:00 p.m. via Zoom

Mark writes: We move from world-building to fable, a roller coaster of a novel built from folklore fairy tales and a TV documentary about Duffy’s Cut, a 1830s railroad dig outside of Philadelphia in which a mass grave of Irish immigrants has been found. This novel was Lynch’s first and shows an astounding ambition in his talent: to fuse a political historian with a fabulist, to fuse an Irish tall tale with a U. S. pulp-fiction western, to meld the story of European oppression with the U. S. dream of the freedom run. Quite readable and visual, RED SKY IN MORNING established Lynch as one of the best stylists of this modern generation.

If you are new to the Book Group and would like to participate in the online discussion, please email Mark at markwrites@bruceandmark.com, and he will email you a formal invitation link to the online discussion group.