Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore / Robin Sloan.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Atlantic Books, 2013.Description: 288 pages ; 21 cmISBN:- 9781782391197 (pbk.) :
- 813.6 23
- PS3619.L6278
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Fiction | The Harden Library, King's Hospital | Fiction Section | F SLO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | R13069X0499 |
Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
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.
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