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Find more info., search and price compare for Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian by Scott Douglas Binding: Hardcover, 320 pages Publisher: Da Capo Press Weight: 1.15 pound Dimension: H: 1.2 x L: 9.1 x W: 5.9 inches ISBN 10: 0786720913 ISBN 13: 9780786720910 Click here to search for this book and compare price at 40+ bookstores with AddALL.com! If you cannot find this book in our new and in print search, be sure to try our used and out of print search too! |
Book Description: For most of us, librarians are the quiet people behind the desk, who, apart from the occasional 'shush,' vanish into the background. But in Quiet, Please, McSweeney's contributor Scott Douglas puts the quirky caretakers of our literature front and center. With a keen eye for the absurd and a Kesey-esque cast of characters (witness the librarian who is sure Thomas Pynchon is Julia Roberts's latest flame), Douglas takes us where few readers have gone before. Punctuated by his own highly subjective research into library history--from Andrew Carnegie's Gilded Age to today's Afghanistan--Douglas gives us a surprising (and sometimes hilarious) look at the lives which make up the social institution that is his library. |
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