02510cam a2200325 i 4500 1227465898 TxAuBib 20240410120000.0 230612s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023027194 9780385549158 hardcover 0385549156 hardcover TxAuBib rda Schaffert, Timothy., author. The Titanic Survivors Book Club : a novel / Timothy Schaffert. First edition. New York : Doubleday, 2024. 2024. 307 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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. 20240410. Titanic (Steamship) Fiction. Librarians Fiction. Paris (France) Fiction. Novels. fast Romans. rvmgf