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Booksellers and bookselling.
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Browse : the
world
in
bookshops
/ edited by Henry Hitchings.
Pushkin Press, 2016.
Call #:
381.45002 B885
Subjects
Bookstores.
Booksellers and bookselling.
Books and reading.
Authors -- Books and reading.
ISBN:
9781782272120 (hc.)
Alternate title:
World
in
bookshops
Description:
253 pages ; 21 cm.
Contents:
Introduction : a place to pause / Henry Hitchings -- Bookshop time / Ali Smith -- Something that doesn't exist / Andrey Kurkov -- The pillars of Hercules / Ian Sansom -- A tale of two
bookshops
/ Juan Gabriel Vásquez -- Leitner and I / Saa Stanii -- All that offers a happy ending is a fairy tale / Yiyun Li -- If you wound a snake ... / Alla Al Aswany -- Desiderium : the accidental bookshop of Nairobi / Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor -- Snow day / Michael Dirda -- Dussmann : a conversation / Daniel Kehlmann -- La Palmaverde / Stefano Benni -- A bookshop in the age of progress / Pankaj Mishra -- Intimacy / Dorthe Nors -- Bohemia Road / Iain Sinclair -- My homeland is storyland / Elif Shafak -- Writers' biographies -- Translators' biographies.
Summary:
Edited and introduced by the writer and critic Henry Hitchings, these fearless, passionate, inquiring essays by award-winning international writers celebrate one of our most essential, but endangered, institutions: the bookshop. From Denmark to Egypt, from the USA to China, Browse brings together some of the
world
's leading authors to investigate
bookshops
both in general and in particular - the myriad pleasures, puzzles and possibilities they disclose. The fifteen essays reflect their authors' own inimitable style - romantic, elegant, bold, argumentative, poetic or whimsical - as they ask probing questions about the significance, the cultural and social (even political) function as well as the physical qualities of the institution, and examine our very personal relationship to it.
Other authors:
Hitchings, Henry, 1974-
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Alderney Gate Public Library
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