TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sloan,Robin
TI  - Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
SN  - 9781782391197 (pbk.) :
AV  - PS3619.L6278 
U1  - 813.6 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - London
PB  - Atlantic Books
KW  - General
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012
N2  - 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
ER  -