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Showing posts with label Sean Dixon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sean Dixon. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Teaser Tuesday 7-28-2009


TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
Please avoid spoilers!





"But that's how the Lacuna Cabal was born. That reading, from a novel that hasn't been published yet, elevated us, even in our inception, from the echelons of the everyday, Oprah-style book club, and established us as a cabal. A secret society." (The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal, p112)








The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal
Publisher/Publication Date: Other Press, April 2009
ISBN: 978-1-59051-312-5
304 pages


Saturday, July 11, 2009

ARC Arrival: The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal

The Last Days of Lacuna Cabal by Sean Dixon

Publisher: Other Press, LLC

I received this from Blue Dot Literary.

About the book: The girls of the Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Women’s Book Club are at a crossroads. One of their founding members is dead, they’ve made a few unfortunate compromises to their membership, some of them aren’t getting any younger, and they’ve been stuck on a single weepy tome for six long months. Resident maverick Runner Coghill decides to shake things up by introducing a cherished family heirloom to the group — ten pristine stone tablets, carved in cuneiform, telling the oldest story in the world: The Epic of Gilgamesh. Because their new book is written in an ancient language, the group must take the unprecedented step of allowing Runner to translate the whole story for them. But Runner’s narration is not of a common vein. Before they know it, the Cabalists have been thrust out to sea, on a journey in search of answers that extends halfway across the world to the war-torn land of this oldest story’s birth.

The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal is an offbeat rites-of-passage novel whose characters live out literature with ferocity and passion. It is a funny, quixotic debut that follows the members of a shallow, squabbling, time-wasting, protracted-adolescent book club as they find themselves transformed through the alchemy of the storyteller’s art. (from Barnes & Noble website)

About the author: Sean Dixon is a writer and actor. His work has been published in The Globe and Mail, This Magazine, Canadian Theatre Review, and Brick, A Literary Journal. Coach House Books published Dixon’s play collection, AWOL, and his young adult novel, The Feathered Cloak, was published by Key Porter. He lives and plays banjo in Toronto. (from Barnes & Noble website)

The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal
Publisher/Publication Date: Other Press, LLC, April 2009
ISBN: 978-1-59051-312-5
304 pages

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