Bookshops
A Cultural History
$43.20
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
10 September 2018
Summary
Why do bookshops matter? How do they filter our ideas and literature? In this inventive and highly entertaining extended essay, Jorge Carrion takes his reader on a journey around the world, via its bookshops. His travels take him to Shakespeare & Co in Paris, Wells in Winchester, Green Apple Books in San Francisco, Librairie des Colonnes in Tangier, the Strand Book Store in New York and provoke encounters with thinkers, poets, dreamers, revolutionaries and readers.
BOOKSHOPS
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857054463 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0857054465 |
| Author: | Peter Bush, Jorge Carrión |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 10 September 2018 |
| Weight: | 249g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 24mm |
About The Author
Peter Bush
Jorge Carrion is a writer and literary critic. He studied at the University of Pompeu Fabra, where he now teaches literature and creative writing. His published works include essays, novellas, novels, and travel writing, and his articles have appeared in National Geographic and Lonely Planet Magazine. Bookshops was a finalist in the Premio Anagrama de Ensayo, 2013.
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