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Institute, Bathroom Readers'
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Fiction
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Perseus Books Group
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English
⚖ 340 KB
✦ LIBER ✦
Bookshops: A Reader's History
✍ Scribed by Carrión, Jorge
- Book ID
- 109564374
- Publisher
- Biblioasis
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 6 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781771961745
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
"Bookshops is the best kind of biblio-mystery, in which a cultivated and civilised detective guides us through the labyrinth of the world's stores, stopping to talk for a while, before plunging off on the next fascinating diversion. Jorge Carrion brings page-turning excitement to the extended essay form." --Iain Sinclair
Jorge Carrion collects bookshops: from Gotham Book Mart and the Strand Bookstore in New York City to City Lights Bookshop and Green Apple Books in San Francisco and all the bright spots in between (Prairie Lights, Tattered Cover, and countless others). In this thought-provoking, vivid, and entertaining essay, Carrion meditates on the importance of the bookshop as a cultural and intellectual space. Filled with anecdotes from the histories of some of the famous (and not-so-famous) shops he visits on his travels, thoughtful considerations of challenges faced by bookstores, and fascinating digressions on their political and social...
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