Bookshops /
Carrion, Jorge, 1976-
Bookshops / Jorge Carrion ; translated by Peter Bush. - 298 pages (large print)
Translated from the Spanish. Standard print edition originally published: London: MacLehose Press, 2016.
Why do bookshops matter? How do they filter our ideas and literature? In this inventive and highly entertaining extended essay, Jorge Carrion takes his reader on a journey around the world, via its bookshops. His travels take him to Shakespeare & Co in Paris, Wells in Winchester, Green Apple Books in San Francisco, Librairie des Colonnes in Tangier, the Strand Book Store in New York and provoke encounters with thinkers, poets, dreamers, revolutionaries and readers. Bookshops is the travelogue of a lucid and curious observer, filled with anecdotes and stories from the universe of writing, publishing and selling books.
9781510062740 (pbk.) : �19.50
Bookstores.
Large type books.
381.4500 CAR
Bookshops / Jorge Carrion ; translated by Peter Bush. - 298 pages (large print)
Translated from the Spanish. Standard print edition originally published: London: MacLehose Press, 2016.
Why do bookshops matter? How do they filter our ideas and literature? In this inventive and highly entertaining extended essay, Jorge Carrion takes his reader on a journey around the world, via its bookshops. His travels take him to Shakespeare & Co in Paris, Wells in Winchester, Green Apple Books in San Francisco, Librairie des Colonnes in Tangier, the Strand Book Store in New York and provoke encounters with thinkers, poets, dreamers, revolutionaries and readers. Bookshops is the travelogue of a lucid and curious observer, filled with anecdotes and stories from the universe of writing, publishing and selling books.
9781510062740 (pbk.) : �19.50
Bookstores.
Large type books.
381.4500 CAR