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The Very Odd Bookclub
September 28, 2014 @ 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
‘City of Saints and Madmen’ by Jeff Vandermeer.
Because this is a hefty tome we’ll be doing it over 2 months.
Session 1, 31st August: “The Book of Ambergris” pages 1-332
Session 2 28th September. ‘Appendix’ pages 333-704
Where: 5.00pm at Durty Nelly’s.
Here’s a taste:
City of elegance and squalor. Of religious fervour and wanton lusts. And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin. In Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers that a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye. An artist receives an invitation to a beheading – and finds himself enchanted. And a patient in a mental institution is convinced he’s made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and that he’s really from a place called Chicago.
Ambergris is a cruelly beautiful metropolis – a haven for artists and thieves, for composers and murderers. And once there, anything can happen.