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A Factotum in the Book Trade

Af: Marius Kociejowski Engelsk Paperback

A Factotum in the Book Trade

Af: Marius Kociejowski Engelsk Paperback
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The bookshop is, and will always be, the soul of the trade. What happens there does not happen elsewhere. The multifariousness of human nature is more on show there than anywhere else, and I think it’s because of books, what they are, what they release in ourselves, and what they become when we make them magnets to our desires.

A memoir of a life in the antiquarian book trade, A Factotum in the Book Trade is a journey between the shelves—and then behind the counter, into the overstuffed basement, and up the spine-stacked attic stairs of your favourite neighbourhood bookshop. From his childhood in rural Ontario, where at the village jumble sale he bought poetry volumes for their pebbled-leather covers alone, to his all-but-accidental entrance into the trade in London and the career it turned into, poet and travel writer Marius Kociejowski recounts his life among the buyers, sellers, customers, and literary nobility—the characters, fictional and not—who populate these places we all love. Cataloging their passions and pleasures, oddities and obsessions, A Factotum in the Book Trade is a journey through their lives, and a story of the serendipities and collisions of fate, the mundane happenings and indelible encounters, the friendships, feuds, losses, and elations that characterize the business of books—and, inevitably, make up an unforgettable life.

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The bookshop is, and will always be, the soul of the trade. What happens there does not happen elsewhere. The multifariousness of human nature is more on show there than anywhere else, and I think it’s because of books, what they are, what they release in ourselves, and what they become when we make them magnets to our desires.

A memoir of a life in the antiquarian book trade, A Factotum in the Book Trade is a journey between the shelves—and then behind the counter, into the overstuffed basement, and up the spine-stacked attic stairs of your favourite neighbourhood bookshop. From his childhood in rural Ontario, where at the village jumble sale he bought poetry volumes for their pebbled-leather covers alone, to his all-but-accidental entrance into the trade in London and the career it turned into, poet and travel writer Marius Kociejowski recounts his life among the buyers, sellers, customers, and literary nobility—the characters, fictional and not—who populate these places we all love. Cataloging their passions and pleasures, oddities and obsessions, A Factotum in the Book Trade is a journey through their lives, and a story of the serendipities and collisions of fate, the mundane happenings and indelible encounters, the friendships, feuds, losses, and elations that characterize the business of books—and, inevitably, make up an unforgettable life.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 192
ISBN-13: 9781771964562
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1771964561
Udg. Dato: 9 jun 2022
Længde: 29mm
Bredde: 134mm
Højde: 209mm
Forlag: Biblioasis
Oplagsdato: 9 jun 2022
Forfatter(e): Marius Kociejowski
Forfatter(e) Marius Kociejowski


Kategori Forlag og boghandel


ISBN-13 9781771964562


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 192


Udgave


Længde 29mm


Bredde 134mm


Højde 209mm


Udg. Dato 9 jun 2022


Oplagsdato 9 jun 2022


Forlag Biblioasis

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