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Led by James Naughtie, readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best-known novels

Led by James Naughtie, a group of readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best-known novels

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Bookclub: Lorrie Moore - Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

06/07/2014

Lorrie Moore - Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

BBC Radio 4 - Bookclub, Lorrie Moore - Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

Acclaimed US writer Lorrie Moore discusses her novel Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

Acclaimed US writer Lorrie Moore discusses her novel, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? James Naughtie presents and a group of invited readers ask the questions.

With James Naughtie. 

The celebrated American writer Lorrie Moore discusses her short novel Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? In the early nineties, Lorrie Moore was wandering through an art gallery when she came upon a painting with this same intriguing title, depicting two young girls looking at a pair of bandaged frogs. Lorrie Moore bought the painting, and borrowed its name and imagery for her second novel.

She says the book is not autobiographical except "in a spiritual way." Her intent was to examine the passion and purity of adolescence and the special quality of girls' friendships in those teenage years.

August's Bookclub choice : The Outcast by Sadie Jones (2008).

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