Bookshops
Carrión, Jorge, 1976-2018
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Why do bookshops matter? How do they filter our ideas and literature? This book takes you on a journey around the world, via its bookshops. The author's 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. This book is the travelogue of a lucid and curious observer, filled with anecdotes and stories from the universe of writing, publishing and selling books. A bookshop in the author's eyes never just a place for material transaction; it is a meeting place for people and their ideas, a setting for world changing encounters, a space that can transform lives. Far from taking a pessimistic view of the future of the physical bookshop, this book makes a compelling case for hope, underlining the importance of these places and the magic that can happen there. A vital manifesto for the future of the traditional bookshop, and a delight for all who love them.
Main title:
Bookshops / Jorge Carrión ; translated from the Spanish by Peter Bush.
Author:
Carrión, Jorge, 1976-, authorBush, Peter R., 1946-, translator
Imprint:
London : MacLehose Press, [2018]©2016
Collation:
304 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Notes:
First published in the Spanish language as Librerías by Editions Anagrama, Barcelona in 2013.This translation first published: 2016.Includes bibliographical references and index.Translated from the Spanish.
ISBN:
9780857054463 (paperback)
Dewey class:
381.45002381.45
Language:
EnglishSpanish
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BRN:
375212
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandringham Library | Adult Non Fiction - Countries | 381.45 CAR | Available |