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In Praise of Good Bookstores

Categorie	Secundair
Boeknummer	#421351-YE9
Titel	In Praise of Good Bookstores
Auteur	Deutsch, Jeff
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij	New Jersey : Princeton University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2022
ISBN10	0691207763
ISBN13	9780691207766
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original pictorial boards, 8vo.
Samenvatting	"Books, even obscure ones, are readily available online in the age of digital retail. As bookstores attempt to find their identity in a new era, some have survived by selling everything from toys to socks, coffee to stationery. In this short book, Jeff Deutsch, the director of the Seminary Co-op Bookstores in Chicago, aims to make the case for the value of spaces devoted to books and the value of the time spent browsing their stacks. It is a defense of serious bookstores, but more importantly it is a paean to the spaces that support them; the experience of readers as they engage with the books, the stacks, and each other; and the particular community created by the presence of such an institution. Drawing on his lifelong experience as a bookseller and his particular experience at Sem ... (Lees verder)Co-op, Deutsch aims, in a series of brief essays, to consider how concepts like space, time, abundance, measure, community, and reverence find expression in a good bookstore, and to show some ways in which the importance of the bookstore is both urgent and enduring"--
Pagina's	200
Conditie	Goed — Small damage top corner front cover.
Prijs	€ 8,00

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