Susan Orlean

The Library Book

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The bestselling author of Rin Tin Tin and The Orchid Thief reopens the unsolved mystery of one of the most catastrophic library fires in history and delivers a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution - our libraries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Atlantic Books
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 310g
• ISBN-13: 9781782392286
• ISBN-10: 1782392289
• Artikelnr.: 58264442

Autorenporträt

Susan Orlean

Rezensionen

"Moving . . . A constant pleasure to read . . . Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book. . . . Orlean, a longtime New Yorker writer, has been captivating us with human stories for decades, and her latest book is a wide-ranging, deeply personal, and terrifically engaging investigation of humanity's bulwark against oblivion: the library. . . . As a narrator, Orlean moves like fire herself, with a pyrotechnic style that smolders for a time over some ancient bibliographic tragedy, leaps to the latest technique in book restoration, and then illuminates the story of a wildly eccentric librarian. Along the way, we learn how libraries have evolved, responded to depressions and wars, and generally thrived despite a constant struggle for funds. Over the holidays, every booklover in America is going to give or get this book. . . . You can't help but finish The Library Book and feel grateful that these marvelous places belong to us all."
-Ron Charles, The Washington Post