The Bookstore - Brossura

Meyler, Deborah

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1448214025 ISBN 13: 9781448214020

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Reader, 2014

Riassunto

Love doesn't always go by the book
Ardent and Idealistic, Esme Garland has arrived in Manhattan with a scholarship to study art history at Columbia University. When she falls in love with New York blue-blood Mitchell van Leuven, with his penchant for all things erotic, life seems to be clear sailing, until a thin blue line signals stormy times ahead. Before she has a chance to tell Mitchell about her pregnancy, he abruptly declares their sex life is as exciting as a cup of tea, and ends it all.

Stubbornly determined to master everything from Degas to diapers, Esme starts work at a small West Side bookstore to make ends meet. The Owl is a shabby all-day, all-night haven for a colorful crew of characters, such as handsome and taciturn guitar player Luke and George, the owner, who lives on spirulina shakes and idealism. The Owl becomes a nexus of good in a difficult world for Esme-but will it be enough to sustain her when Mitchell, glittering with charm and danger, comes back on the scene?

The Bookstore is a celebration of books, of the shops where they are sold, and of the people who work, read, and live in them. The Bookstore is also a story about emotional discovery, the complex choices we all face, and the accidental inspirations that make a life worth the reading.

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Recensione:

A deeply satisfying novel you will keep close to your heart, written in a style by turns witty and poetic. (Booklist Starred Review)

I loved this funny, elegant novel. If you like books, bookshops and stories which bring together the head and heart, this one's for you. (Andy Miller, author of The Year of Reading Dangerously)

The Bookstore is not just promising, it is accomplished, fully formed and as touching as it is hilarious. Deborah Meyler has that precious gift of making knowledge lyrical (Clive James 2016-03-10)

I read The Bookstore with great enjoyment: so witty and so sad, and so life-enhancing. I loved the perspective of America through the eyes of a Brit. (Jill Paton Walsh)

This is a gorgeous book, witty, lyrical, and bursting with heart, an unabashed love letter to books, to Manhattan, and to human goodness. You will race home to read it, and when you finish you will be smiling, wondering what happened next . . . and quietly formulating your next excuse for a trip to New York City. (Gabrielle Donnelly, author of The Little Women Letters)

Descrizione del libro:

Deborah Meyler's first novel is a witty, sharply-observed story of a twenty-something Englishwoman who finds unexpected salvation in a shabby Upper West Side bookstore in New York after an affair with Mitchell van Leuven, a memorably awful villain.

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• Editore: Bloomsbury Reader
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1448214025
• ISBN 13: 9781448214020
• Rilegatura: Print on Demand (copertina flessibile)
• Numero di pagine: 352