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The Titanic Survivors Book Club

The Titanic Survivors Book Club Hardcover_textured paper boards - 2024

by Schaffert, Timothy

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NY: Doubleday, 2024. 1st Edition. Hardcover_textured paper boards. New/New. FIRST PRINTING w/DJ wrapped in mylar. Features: Price on Product. Physical Info: 1.42" H x 9.29" L x 6.06" W (1.2 lbs) 320 pages. Secure ship w/track #. 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 the day the Titanic set sail he was left stranded at the dock. After the ship's sinking, Yorick takes this twist of fate as a sign to follow his lifelong dream of owning a bookshop in Paris. Soon after, 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 form a book society, where they can grapple with their own anxieties through heated discussions of The Awakening or The Picture of Dorian Gray. Of this ragtag group, Yorick finds himself particularly drawn to the glamorous Zinnia and the mysterious Haze, and a tangled triangle of love and friendship forms among them. Yet with the Great War on the horizon and the unexpected death of one of their own, the surviving book club members are left wondering what fate might have in store. Elegant and elegiac, The Titanic Survivors Book Club is a dazzling ode to love, chance, and the transformative power of books to bring people together.
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  • Title The Titanic Survivors Book Club
  • Author Schaffert, Timothy
  • Binding Hardcover_textured paper boards
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Doubleday, NY
  • Date 2024
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 16916
  • ISBN 9780385549158 / 0385549156
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.29 x 6.06 x 1.42 in (23.60 x 15.39 x 3.61 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Gay
    • Topical: Lgbt
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2023027194
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.6

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From the publisher

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of The Perfume Thief, a remarkable tale about the life-changing power of books and second chances, following the Titanic librarian who opens a bookshop in Paris where he meets a secret society of survivors.

"Deeply moving and rich with vivid detail . . . Timothy Schaffert is an exquisite storyteller."--Lara Prescott, New York Times bestselling author of The Secrets We Kept

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 the day the Titanic set sail he was left stranded at the dock.

After the ship's sinking, Yorick takes this twist of fate as a sign to follow his lifelong dream of owning a bookshop in Paris. Soon after, 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 form a book society, where they can grapple with their own anxieties through heated discussions of The Awakening or The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Of this ragtag group, Yorick finds himself particularly drawn to the glamorous Zinnia and the mysterious Haze, and a tangled triangle of love and friendship forms among them. Yet with the Great War on the horizon and the unexpected death of one of their own, the surviving book club members are left wondering what fate might have in store.

Elegant and elegiac, The Titanic Survivors Book Club is a dazzling ode to love, chance, and the transformative power of books to bring people together.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 03/01/2024, Page 31
  • Kirkus Reviews, 03/01/2024, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 03/08/2024, Page 2
  • Publishers Weekly, 02/26/2024, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 04/09/2024, Page 0

About the author

TIMOTHY SCHAFFERT is the author of six previous novels: The Perfume Thief, The Swan Gondola, The Coffins of Little Hope, Devils in the Sugar Shop, The Singing and Dancing Daughters of God, and The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters. He is the Adele Hall Chair of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and coeditor of Zero Street, a literary fiction series of the University of Nebraska Press.

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