Bookshops /
by Carrion, Jorge [author.]; Bush, Peter R [translator.].
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BookPublisher: Rearsby : Clipper Large Print Books, 2017Description: 298 pages (large print).ISBN: 9781510062740 (pbk.) :.Classification number: 381.4500 CARUniform titles: Librerias. English.Subject(s): Bookstores | Large type booksSummary: 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.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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| Large Print - Adult | Formby Library | Large Print Adult Non-Fiction | 381.4500 CAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 002994129X |
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.
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