Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
$57.54
- Hardcover
128 pages
- Release Date
24 November 2020
Summary
A cantankerously funny view of books and the people who love them.
It does take all kinds, and through the misanthropic eyes of a very grumpy bookseller, we see them all—from the “Person Who Doesn’t Know What They Want (But Thinks It Might Have a Blue Cover)” to the “Parents Secretly After Free Childcare.”
From behind the counter, Shaun Bythell catalogs the customers who roam his shop in Wigtown, Scotland. There’s the Expert (divided into subspecies f…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781567926927 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1567926924 |
| Author: | Shaun Bythell |
| Publisher: | David R. Godine Publisher Inc |
| Imprint: | David R. Godine Publisher Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 24 November 2020 |
| Dimensions: | 191mm x 114mm |
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Praise for Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
“Bythell continues his seriocomic take on his profession….he spares no one.”–Washington Post
“Virtuosic venting…misanthropy is tempered with bursts of sweetness in the secondhand bookseller’s latest dispatches.”–The Guardian
“An inherently riveting, entertaining, and thought-provoking read from cover to cover.”–Midwest Book Review
About The Author
Shaun Bythell
Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop, the largest second-hand bookshop in Scotland. He is the author of Confessions of a Bookseller. Shaun lives in Wigtown, Scotland.
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