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Disquiet
An overgrown gateway is Olivia's passage back into her childhood home - her estranged and elderly mother's wealthy French estate. Broken and crippled by a long and savage relationship, she has fled Australia with her two young children. As they arrive, hopes of some kind of happiness, and a family, are also ending for Olivia's brother and his devastated wife. The rigid calm and cold civility of the household are an ever more fragile illusion, shattered by the blows of raw human emotion.
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A Confederacy of Dunces
'Do I believe the total perversion that I am witnessing?' Ignatius J Reilly lumbers reluctantly through his home town New Orleans in violent revolt against the modern world, and just about everybody in it.
Whilst outraged by the bad taste of all popular culture he scoffs it down in buckets full, leaving time for little else. When debt threatens to rob him of his comfortable maternal home Ignatius infiltrates the corrupted social system and fails, dismally, to bring it down from within.
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Tip 1 - Just do it: So many clubs have foundered on good intentions. Choose a book -- don't try to get consensus -- just choose any book for the first meeting.
