Title:
Bookshops : a reader's history
Author:
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Publication Date:
2017
Publication Information:
Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, [2017].
Physical Description:
296 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781771961745
Abstract:
"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."-- Provided by publisher.
General Note:
Translation of: Librerías.
Translated from the Spanish by Peter Bush.
Contents:
Introduction inspired by a Stefan Zweig short story -- Always a journey -- Athens: a possible beginning -- The oldest bookshops in the world -- Shakespeare and companies -- Bookshops fated to be political -- An oriental bookshop -- America (I): "coast to coast" -- America (II): from north to south -- Paris without its myths -- Book chains -- Books and bookshops at the end of the world -- The show must go on -- Everyday bookshops -- Epilogue: Virtual bookshops.
Language:
English
