“The Razor’s Edge”

by W. Somerset Maugham

Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham’s most brillant characters – his fiancee Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliot Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob. The most ambitious of Maugham’s novels, this is also one in which Maugham himself plays a considerable part as he wanders in and out of the story, to observe his characters struggling with their fates.

Copies of this book are available at the library’s circulation desk for a one-week loan. If you have a library card, you can check out a copy for three weeks.

Join us on the library lanai for a lively discussion of this book.