11/04/2006
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Dwyane Wade goes one-on-one with Mr. Darcy
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Who needs Romeo and Juliet, the Brownings, Yury Zhivago and Lara, Dante and Beatrice, Peter Abelard and Hélose, Ben Braddock and Mrs. Robinson, Alice Toklas and Gertrude Stein. We crave this week's hot literary couple: Jane and Dwyane.
At 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade takes to the Chapman Conference Center stage at Miami Dade College's Wolfson Campus to introduce young-adult readers to one of his favorite novels, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
Interviewed by Heat play-by-play announcer Michael Inglis, Wade will discuss how the love story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, set in another country and century, is relevant to a basketball superstar from a rough, poor Chicago neighborhood.
''Class struggle, overcoming stereotypes and humble beginnings, getting out of your own way and letting love take over: these are things I can relate to, definitely,'' Wade says in a statement.
And, indeed, ''it's a book about opposites,'' says Preston Payne Scanlon of Coral Gables who taught the novel for several years at a large comprehensive high school in England.
" And the way the book happens is that as those characters sort of merge, you end up with a balance, and it's that balance that I think leaves you with a sense of well being at the end.''
Free tickets for the event will be distributed starting at 5 p.m. outside the conference center, Building 3, at the campus, 300 NE Second Ave., Miami. The event also is sponsored by Florida Center for the Literary Arts and Books & Books. Wade's appearance is part of the ''Aim High, Live Classic'' initiative of the National Basketball Association and Penguin Classics.
Other participants are Ray Allen of the Seattle SuperSonics with Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha; Becky Hammon of the New York Liberty (Arthur Miller's The Crucible) and sports legend Magic Johnson (Frederick Douglass' Narrative of My Life As a Slave).
Those who buy a book at the event also will receive a special poster from Wade. That is a truth universally acknowledged. Wade will not, however, sign memorabilia.
Download source here
Who needs Romeo and Juliet, the Brownings, Yury Zhivago and Lara, Dante and Beatrice, Peter Abelard and Hélose, Ben Braddock and Mrs. Robinson, Alice Toklas and Gertrude Stein. We crave this week's hot literary couple: Jane and Dwyane.
At 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade takes to the Chapman Conference Center stage at Miami Dade College's Wolfson Campus to introduce young-adult readers to one of his favorite novels, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
Interviewed by Heat play-by-play announcer Michael Inglis, Wade will discuss how the love story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, set in another country and century, is relevant to a basketball superstar from a rough, poor Chicago neighborhood.
''Class struggle, overcoming stereotypes and humble beginnings, getting out of your own way and letting love take over: these are things I can relate to, definitely,'' Wade says in a statement.
And, indeed, ''it's a book about opposites,'' says Preston Payne Scanlon of Coral Gables who taught the novel for several years at a large comprehensive high school in England.
" And the way the book happens is that as those characters sort of merge, you end up with a balance, and it's that balance that I think leaves you with a sense of well being at the end.''
Free tickets for the event will be distributed starting at 5 p.m. outside the conference center, Building 3, at the campus, 300 NE Second Ave., Miami. The event also is sponsored by Florida Center for the Literary Arts and Books & Books. Wade's appearance is part of the ''Aim High, Live Classic'' initiative of the National Basketball Association and Penguin Classics.
Other participants are Ray Allen of the Seattle SuperSonics with Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha; Becky Hammon of the New York Liberty (Arthur Miller's The Crucible) and sports legend Magic Johnson (Frederick Douglass' Narrative of My Life As a Slave).
Those who buy a book at the event also will receive a special poster from Wade. That is a truth universally acknowledged. Wade will not, however, sign memorabilia.
