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Bezig met laden... The last bookstore in America (editie 2009)door Amy Stewart (Auteur)
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   ) zmagic69 | Mar 31, 2023 |   ) abycats | May 11, 2018 |  ) EllsbethB | Sep 3, 2016 | I liked: “Sy believed that literature, like jazz and Impressionism, was born out of intoxication, bred in bars and coffee houses and opium dens, and meant to be shared at parties and in backyards and living rooms and out on the street. He was suspicious of writers who swore off booze and cigarettes and late nights in favor of a pot of tea and yoga at sunrise. Healthy living, he believed, was the enemy of literature.” What bugged me: The book contains a number of errors that should have been caught by a proofreader (words left out here and there; a character’s name misspelled; lay instead of lie; a buttered “role”). And how ironic that this should happen in a book that contains the following lament: “. . . [A]s publishing houses collapsed, the job of editing a book fell to freelance editors, and writers who couldn’t stand to see their precious prose tampered with in the first place decided to skip the editing process altogether. It made for books riddled with foolish errors and long-winded digressions.” Indeed, the book is self-published. Why didn’t Stewart hire an editor? Or a more careful one? Does anyone want to hire me??? ( ) toniclark | Mar 24, 2016 | ) Booklover889 | Mar 17, 2016 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML: Bestselling author and bookstore owner Amy Stewart takes an offbeat and lighthearted look at the future of the book. After the ebook renders bookstores obsolete, a young couple finds themselves in the unlikely position of owning one of the last bookstores in America. But if it isn't keeping itself afloat selling books, what is it selling? A hilarious glimpse at a future that is almost here. Nothing is what it seems in the offbeat and out-of-the-way town of Eureka, California. Shrouded in fog and hidden behind a curtain of redwoods, this rundown mill town is home to a peculiar cast of characters, a unique homegrown horticultural industry, and one of the last bookstores in America. No one is more surprised by the unlikely survival of the Firebreathing Dragon than Lewis Hartman, its newest owner. By the time his uncle Sy died and left the bookstore to Lewis, even the most ardent bibliophiles had abandoned printed books in favor of a charming and highly literate digital device called the Gizmo. Bookstores all over the country had closed their doors. But somehow, the Firebreathing Dragon has kept going. So how has the Firebreathing Dragon managed to survive the death of the book? And if it isn't keeping itself afloat selling books, what is it selling? Reporters, federal agents, and corporate executives out to salvage their own imperiled industries all converge on the bookstore to uncover its secrets. What they discover is a small town that has fallen under the spell of the Firebreathing Dragon's unique offerings. In her first work of fiction, Amy Stewart explores the strange dynamics of small-town life and the future of that marvelous two thousand year-old communication device, the printed book. .Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
LibraryThing-AuteurAmy Stewart is een LibraryThing auteur: een auteur die zijn persoonlijke bibliotheek toont op LibraryThing. Actuele discussiesGeenPopulaire omslagen
 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813Literature English (North America) American fictionLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.63)
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