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LIPs News15th February 2010: The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart Presenting the book for discussion will be Lucas. Posted on 19/01/201018th January 2010: The Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot Presenting the book for discussion will be Jim. Posted on 22/12/200921st December 2009: The Collector by John Fowles Presenting the book for discussion will be Claire. Posted on 20/11/200916th November 2009: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn Presenting the book for discussion will be Russell. Posted on 20/10/200919th October 2009: The Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing Presenting the book for discussion will be John. Posted on 24/09/200915th October 2009 - 1pm The Bluecoat Centre: Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry It is the Day of the Dead. The fiesta in full swing. In the shadow of Popocatepeti ragged children beg coins to buy skulls made of chocolate...and the ugly pariah dogs roam the streets. Geoffrey Firmin, HM ex-consul, is drowning himself in liquor and Mescal, while his ex-wife and half brother look on powerless to help him. As the day wears on, it becomes apparent that Geoffrey must die. It is his only escape from a world he cannot understand. Under the Volcano is one of the century's great undisputed masterpieces. See the Bluecoat website for further details of the festival.
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15th February 2010 Venue The Ship
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Literature in Pubs (LIPs) is a community book group searching for literary stimulation in the relaxing atmosphere of a cosy pub.
Currently the meetings are held at The Ship & Mitre pub on Dale
Street in Liverpool city centre, on the 3rd Monday of every month at 6pm.
The cult classic that can still change your life! Let the dice decide! This is the philosophy that changes the life of bored psychiatrist Luke Rhinehart -- and in some ways changes the world as well. Because once you hand over your life to the dice, anything can happen. Entertaining, humorous, scary, shocking, subversive, The Dice Man is one of the cult bestsellers of our time.
The culminating achievement of Eliot's poetic career. The four parts: "Burnt Norton","East Coker", "The Dry Salvages" and "Little Gidding" present a rigorous meditation upon those spiritual, philosophical and personal themes that preoccupied the author.
Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda. When he wins the pools he buys a remote Sussex house and calmly abducts Miranda, believing she will grow to love him in time. Alone and desperate, Miranda must struggle to overcome her own prejudices and contempt if she is to understand her captor, and so gain her freedom.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is set in a Soviet labor camp in the 1950s, and describes a single day of an ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov. Widely regarded as one of the finest examples of the post-war Russian literary genre.
As the world falls apart outside, the narrator watches over Emily, a young child brought into her care by a stranger. Emily is also guarded by Hugo, half cat and half dog, the bizarre and lovable beast whose presence dominates the tale.
This month LIPs is holding a special discussion event in conjunction with The Bluecoat centre in Liverpool. LIPs with take part in the the celebration of the writer Malcolm Lowry (1909 - 57), and we will be in the hub holding a discussion on 'Under the Volcano' at 1pm on the 15th October at The Bluecoat. In addition to LIPs the festival features a special centenary exhibition and a programme of performances and events.