02232cam a2200397 i 4500 1825378779 TxAuBib 20241217120000.0 230612s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023027194 9780385549158 hardcover 0385549156 hardcover (OCoLC)1389608467 TxAuBib rda Schaffert, Timothy, author. The Titanic Survivors Book Club : a novel / Timothy Schaffert. First edition. New York : Doubleday, [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. ... 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"-- Provided by publisher. 20241217. Titanic (Steamship) Fiction. Shipwrecks Fiction. Booksellers and bookselling Fiction. Book clubs (Discussion groups) Fiction. Secret societies Fiction. Friendship Juvenile fiction. Gay men Fiction. Anxiety Fiction. World war, 1914-1918 Fiction. Paris (France) Social life and customs 20th century Fiction. TXKIP