The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century

Author:   Josh Cook
Publisher:   Biblioasis
ISBN:  

9781771965415


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   22 February 2024
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Josh Cook
Publisher:   Biblioasis
Imprint:   Biblioasis
Dimensions:   Width: 13.30cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 20.90cm
ISBN:  

9781771965415


ISBN 10:   177196541
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   22 February 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

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Praise for Josh Cook The writing throughout is so crystalline, the dialogue so acerbically funny and the characters so engaging as to make the pages seem as though they're turning themselves. -Kirkus Reviews, starred review Bookseller and debut novelist Cook's humorous take on various whodunit and noir tropes is ... spot-on. -Library Journal One of the most high-minded detective stories in years ... Meticulously planned and content-rich, this sophisticated, variegated study ... ranks with the best upmarket mysteries by Iain Pears and Umberto Eco. -Bookslut


Praise for Josh Cook The writing throughout is so crystalline, the dialogue so acerbically funny and the characters so engaging as to make the pages seem as though they're turning themselves. -Kirkus Reviews, starred review Bookseller and debut novelist Cook's humorous take on various whodunit and noir tropes is ... spot-on. -Library Journal One of the most high-minded detective stories in years ... Meticulously planned and content-rich, this sophisticated, variegated study ... ranks with the best upmarket mysteries by Iain Pears and Umberto Eco. -Bookslut One of [my] favorite booksellers. -Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere


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Josh Cook is a bookseller and co-owner at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has worked since 2004. He is also author of the critically acclaimed postmodern detective novel An Exaggerated Murder and his fiction, criticism, and poetry have appeared in numerous leading literary publications. He grew up in Lewiston, Maine and lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

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