Join the IHSI book club group on August 21st at Meridian Hills Country Club located at 7099 Spring Mill Rd., Indianapolis, Indiana 46260 for lunch on your own and a discussion of this month’s selection.

September Book: Pleasure by Gabriele D’Annunzio

Summary: Like Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray, Andrea Sperelli lives his life as a work of art, seeking beauty and flouting the rules of morality and social interaction along the way. In his aristocratic circles in Rome, he is a serial seducer. But there are two women who command his special regard: the beautiful young widow Elena, and the pure, virgin-like Maria. In Andrea’s pursuit of the exalted heights of extreme pleasure, he plays them against each other, spinning a sadistic web of lust and deceit.