Big Reads Community Event In-Person
Join us at the West Haven Public Library for a community discussion of the book, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury! We will mingle and enjoy refreshments, discuss the book and its themes, and hand out complimentary copies of the book (while supplies last).
Over sixty years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. (Goodreads.com)
This program is sponsored by the International Festival of Arts and Ideas as part of their 30th anniversary.
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