Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian (10th Anniversary Edition) - Couverture souple

Douglas, Scott

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1610422538 ISBN 13 : 9781610422536

Editeur : SL Editions, 2016

Synopsis

For most of us, librarians are the quiet people behind the desk, who, apart from the occasional "shush," vanish into the background. But in Quiet, Please, McSweeney's contributor Scott Douglas puts the quirky caretakers of our literature front and center. With a keen eye for the absurd and a Kesey-esque cast of characters (witness the librarian who is sure Thomas Pynchon is Julia Roberts's latest flame), Douglas takes us where few readers have gone before. Punctuated by his own highly subjective research into library history-from Andrew Carnegie's Gilded Age to today's Afghanistan-Douglas gives us a surprising (and sometimes hilarious) look at the lives which make up the social institution that is his library.

This 10th Anniversary Edition includes nearly 100 pages of added content (including a new forward and afterward).

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

“[A] cleverly written book...Scott Douglas brings us into the stacks.”—Chicago Tribune, 5/10/08, Editor’s Choice

“Scott Douglas is pretty cool for a librarian...His clear belief in the importance of libraries for communities gives the book heart.”—London Paper, 5/6/08

“Interesting, irreverent, entertaining and laugh-out-loud funny...Give a copy to your favorite librarian.”—Augusta Metro Spirit, 9/10/08

“Douglas opens the book on the burgeoning sect of hipster librarians who are shattering the image of bun-wearing shushers of the past...Through a host of oddball characters and situations, Douglas shows how public libraries are alive and thriving amid the current technological boom...[It] show[s] that the public library is more than a storehouse for books; it is a stage where casts of characters roam.”—Charleston Post and Courier, 5/31/09

Présentation de l'éditeur

For most of us, librarians are the quiet people behind the desk, who, apart from the occasional shush,” vanish into the background. But in Quiet, Please, McSweeney's contributor Scott Douglas puts the quirky caretakers of our literature front and center. With a keen eye for the absurd and a Kesey-esque cast of characters (witness the librarian who is sure Thomas Pynchon is Julia Roberts's latest flame), Douglas takes us where few readers have gone before. Punctuated by his own highly subjective research into library history-from Andrew Carnegie's Gilded Age to today's Afghanistan-Douglas gives us a surprising (and sometimes hilarious) look at the lives which make up the social institution that is his library.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SL Editions
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1610422538
• ISBN 13: 9781610422536
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 402
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible