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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Titanic Survivors Book Club: A Novel (edizione 2024)di Timothy Schaffert (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Pretty good—I read it quickly though my interest waned the further along I got. At the beginning it felt like there some sinister undertones, like the characters weren’t all that they seemed, but that turned out to not be the case. The love triangle was interesting but sometimes just left me wondering: really? ( ) Yorick was supposed to sail on the Titanic as its librarian, but circumstances changed and he was safely on land when the disaster struck. As it happened there were others who escaped death at the last minute, and they all received an invitation to meet. That meeting was the beginning of many changes for Yorick and everybody who attended. This novel delves into their various relationships and the evolution of Yorick's bookstore, with the backdrop of Paris before and during the First World War. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"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 theship'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 theragtag 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."-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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