The Librarianist

AUTEUR(S): Patrick deWitt.


TAAL: Engels.
UITGEVER: Bloomsbury.
JAAR: 2023.
PAGINA’S: 352.
DRUK: Eerste editie.
STAAT: Nieuw (New).
UITVOERING: Paperback.
ISBN/EAN: 9781526646934
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BESCHRIJVING

Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books in a mint-colored house in Portland, Oregon. One morning on his daily walk he encounters a confused elderly woman lost in a market and returns her to the senior center that is her home.

Hoping to fill the void he s known since retiring, he begins volunteering at the center. Here, as a community of strange peers gathers around Bob, and following a happenstance brush with a painful complication from his past, the events of his life and the details of his character are revealed. Behind Bob Comet s straight man facade is the story of an unhappy child s runaway adventure during the last days of the Second World War, of true love won and stolen away, of the purpose and pride found in the librarian s vocation, and the pleasures of a life lived to the side of the masses.

Comet s experiences are imbued with melancholy but also a bright, sustained comedy; he has a talent for locating bizarre and outsized players to welcome onto the stage of his life. With his inimitable verve, skewed humor, and compassion for the outcast, Patrick deWitt has written a wide-ranging and ambitious document of the introvert s condition. The Librarianist celebrates the extraordinary in the so-called ordinary life, and depicts beautifully the turbulence that sometimes

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Op voorraad

Patrick deWitt. The Librarianist. Bloomsbury, verschenen in 2023. 352 pagina’s. Eerste editie. Staat: Nieuw (New). Paperback.

INTERN ID: 9781526646934
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