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The Titanic Survivors Book Club : a novel / Timothy Schaffert.
Van Pelt Library PS3619.C325 T58 2024
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schaffert, Timothy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Titanic (Steamship)--Fiction.
- Titanic (Steamship).
- Paris (France)--Fiction.
- Paris (France).
- Librarians--Fiction.
- Librarians.
- Book clubs (Discussion groups)--Fiction.
- Book clubs (Discussion groups).
- Secret societies--Fiction.
- Secret societies.
- Booksellers and bookselling--Fiction.
- Booksellers and bookselling.
- Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
- Interpersonal relations.
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction.
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations).
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 307 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Doubleday, [2024]
- Summary:
- "For weeks after the sinking of the Titanic, Yorick spots his own name among the list of those lost at sea. As an apprentice librarian for the White Star Line, his job was to curate the ship's second-class library. But just as he was about to board to tend to his library throughout the passage, a superior takes his place, leaving Yorick stranded at the dock. The Titanic was not Yorick's first brush with death, but as with every near-miss he manages to escape into the world of books. After he learns of the ship's sinking, he takes this twist of fate as a sign to follow his lifelong dream of owning a bookshop in Paris. It's at his shop that he receives an invitation to a secret society of survivors where he encounters other ticket-holders who didn't board the ship. Haunted by their good fortune, they decide to transform their group into a book society, where they can grapple with their own anxieties through the guise of discussing contentious works such as The Awakening or The Picture of Dorian Gray. Of the ragtag group of survivors, Yorick finds himself particularly drawn to the wealthy candy heiress Zinnia and the mysterious and alluring Haze. Yorick feels like an outsider looking in, falling hopelessly for Haze as Haze courts Zinnia; a tangled triangle of love and friendship forms between them. Yet with the Great War looming, their close-knit group is shattered, only brought back together once the death of a fellow book club member leaves them wondering what fate has in store for each of them"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Schaffert, Timothy. Titanic Survivors Book Club
- ISBN:
- 9780385549158
- 0385549156
- 9780593469002
- 0593469003
- OCLC:
- 1389608467
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