This is a first edition and first printing of The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal by Sean Dixon, published by Harper Collins in 2008.
The book is in brand new condition.
It is a signed and numbered limited edition - number 69 of only 250 copies!!
Book Description:
The Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Women's Book Club is THE premier book club in the world. What they won't admit is that a) some of them are not as young as they like to say they are b) they are not all women and c) lately they haven't spent that much time reading.
But one monumental book leads them to break all their rules, shed members who end up missing out on EVERYTHING, and travel across the open seas in search of a wise man who'll hopefully have all the answers.
Voted one of the books of the year in Canada, 'The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal' is set in a time of upheaval: the Iraq war is exploding and people across the world are marching in protest. It's a funny, quixotic and ultimately very moving story of a group of friends who find a family of sorts within their book group, who learn to cope with love, and the lack of it, loss, and the lack of that, and with growing up in a world that is falling apart.
Synopsis:
An original, mischevious rites of passage novel which will delight fans of off-beat fiction such as 'Salmon Fishing in the Yemen'and 'A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian'. The Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Women's Book Club is THE foremost book club in Canada, no, in the world. Priding themselves on their good taste, intelligent discussions and impeccable opinions, they are a group of misfits and oddballs, living on the edge of normality. There are only two rules: what Missy says goes (ok, there is a nod to democracy but let's be honest here) and NO BOYS. EVER. Of course, the premier book club in the world must read the first book ever written: 'The Epic of Gilgamesh'. But this monumental book leads them to break all their rules, shed members who end up missing out on EVERYTHING, and travel across the open seas to Bahrain in search of a wise man who'll hopefully have all the answers. Original, funny, quixotic and ultimately very moving,The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal is set in a time of upheaval: the Iraq war is exploding and people across the world are marching in protest.It's the story of a group of friends who find a family of sorts within their book group, who learn to cope with love, and the lack of it, loss, and the lack of that, and with growing up in a world that is falling apart.