Bookshops : a reader's history /
"Jorge Carrión collects bookshops: from Gotham Book Mart and the Strand Bookstore in New York City to City Lights Bookshop and Green Apple Books in San Francisco and all the bright spots in between (Prairie Lights, Tattered Cover, and countless others). In this thought-provoking, vivid, and ent...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the Spanish. |
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Windsor, Ontario :
Biblioasis,
[2017]
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| Series: | Biblioasis international translation series ;
no. 21. |
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| Summary: | "Jorge Carrión collects bookshops: from Gotham Book Mart and the Strand Bookstore in New York City to City Lights Bookshop and Green Apple Books in San Francisco and all the bright spots in between (Prairie Lights, Tattered Cover, and countless others). In this thought-provoking, vivid, and entertaining essay, Carrión meditates on the importance of the bookshop as a cultural and intellectual space. Filled with anecdotes from the histories of some of the famous (and not-so-famous) shops he visits on his travels, thoughtful considerations of challenges faced by bookstores, and fascinating digressions on their political and social impact, Bookshops is both a manifesto and a love letter to these spaces that transform readers' lives."-- |
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| Item Description: | "First published in the Spanish language as Librerías by Editions Anagrama, Barcelona in 2013. |
| Physical Description: | 296 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-296). |
| ISBN: | 9781771961745 1771961740 9780857054449 0857054449 |