Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. Die sonderbare Buchhandlung des Mr. Penumbra, englische Ausgabe
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Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco Web-design drone and has landed him a new job working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. There are only a few customers, but they come in repeatedly and never seem to actually buy anything; instead they simply borrow impossibly obscure volumes from strange corners of the store, all according to some elaborate, long-standing arrangement with the gnomic Mr. Penumbra. The store must be a front for something larger, Clay concludes, and soon he's embarked on a complex analysis of the customers' behaviour. Clay Jannon, twenty-six and unemployed, reads books about vampire policemen and teenage wizards. Familiar, predictable books. Books that fit neatly into a section at the bookstore. But he is about to encounter a new species of book entirely: secret, strange, and frantically sought-after.
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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. Die sonderbare Buchhandlung des Mr. Penumbra, englische Ausgabe, Robin Sloan
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- 2014
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- Titolo
- Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. Die sonderbare Buchhandlung des Mr. Penumbra, englische Ausgabe
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Robin Sloan
- Editore
- Macmillan US
- Pubblicato
- 2014
- Formato
- In brossura
- ISBN10
- 1250064554
- ISBN13
- 9781250064554
- Tag
- Narrativa, Gialli & Thriller, Fantasy, Prosa storica, Gialli, Fantascienza, Narrativa contemporanea, Amore, Racconti, USA, Tecnologia, Letteratura Americana, Segreti, Sui libri, Futuro, Internet, Contemporaneo, Indovinelli e rompicapi, Opera Prima, Biblioteche, San Francisco, Libreria, Immortalità, Società Segrete, Google, Progresso, Stampa a caratteri mobili, Cifrari, Silicon Valley
- Prima pubblicazione
- 2012
- Titolo originale
- Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
- Valutazione
- 3,7 su 5
- Descrizione
- Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco Web-design drone and has landed him a new job working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. There are only a few customers, but they come in repeatedly and never seem to actually buy anything; instead they simply borrow impossibly obscure volumes from strange corners of the store, all according to some elaborate, long-standing arrangement with the gnomic Mr. Penumbra. The store must be a front for something larger, Clay concludes, and soon he's embarked on a complex analysis of the customers' behaviour. Clay Jannon, twenty-six and unemployed, reads books about vampire policemen and teenage wizards. Familiar, predictable books. Books that fit neatly into a section at the bookstore. But he is about to encounter a new species of book entirely: secret, strange, and frantically sought-after.