The book, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is the focus of Pageturners book club's January selection. In addition to three discussions of the book, which is celebrating 50 years in print this year, participants will also have the opportunity to see the movie version of this modern classic.

Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of distinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. One day Montag meets a young girl who demonstrates to him the beauty of books, of knowledge, of conceiving and sharing ideas; she wakes him up, changing his life forever. Written in 1951, Fahrenheit 451 was made into a movie in 1966 starring Oskar Werner and Julie Christie.

Fahrenheit 451 will be discussed Monday, January 23, 2012, at 4 p.m. and again Tuesday, January 24 at 1:30 p.m. in the Bradner Library on the college’s main campus in LIvonia and Thursday, January 26 at 4 p.m. at the Radcliff Center in Garden City. The movie will be shown and discussed Thursday, January 26 at 10 a.m. in the McDowell Center on the main campus in Livonia.

Fahrenheit 451 is available from the Schoolcraft College Bookstore at a significant discount. The book discussions, and movie screening and discussion are free and open to the public. For more information about Pageturners’ future book selections and discussions, visit http://sites.google.com/site/scpageturners.

Schoolcraft College is a public, two-year college offering classes at the main campus in Livonia, Haggerty Road between Six and Seven Mile Roads; at the Radcliff Center in Garden City; and online at www.schoolcraft.edu.