Named Best Book of the Year by NPR, this book is a must read. Clay discovers that the store is more curious than either its name or its owner might suggest. Suspicious, Clay engineers an analysis of the clienteles behavior. Rendered with intelligence, Sloan's Mr. Penumbras 24-Hour Bookstore is an establishment youll want to enter and never leave.
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Robin Sloan creció en Michigan y ahora divide su tiempo entre San Francisco e Internet. Es escritor e inventor de medios digitales y formó parte del equipo de Twitter.
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Vendeur : World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, Etats-Unis
Etat : Good. Good condition ex-library book with usual library markings and stickers. N° de réf. du vendeur 00110271719
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Vendeur : World of Books Inc, Montgomery, IL, Etats-Unis
Etat : Good. A gleeful and exhilarating tale of global conspiracy, complex code-breaking, high-tech data visualization, young love, rollicking adventure, and the secret to eternal life--mostly set in a hole-in-the-wall San Francisco bookstore The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco Web-design drone--and serendipity, sheer curiosity, and the ability to climb a ladder like a monkey has landed him a new gig working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. But after just a few days on the job, Clay begins to realize that this store is even more curious than the name suggests. There are only a few customers, but they come in repeatedly and never seem to actually buy anything, instead checking out impossibly obscure volumes from strange corners of the store, all according to some elaborate, long-standing arrangement with the gnomic Mr. Penumbra. The store must be a front for something larger, Clay concludes, and soon he's embarked on a complex analysis of the customers' behavior and roped his friends into helping to figure out just what's going on. But once they bring their findings to Mr. Penumbra, it turns out the secrets extend far outside the walls of the bookstore. With irresistible brio and dazzling intelligence, Robin Sloan has crafted a literary adventure story for the twenty-first century, evoking both the fairy-tale charm of Haruki Murakami and the enthusiastic novel-of-ideas wizardry of Neal Stephenson or a young Umberto Eco, but with a unique and feisty sensibility that's rare to the world of literary fiction. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore is exactly what it sounds like: an establishment you have to enter and will never want to leave, a modern-day cabinet of wonders ready to give a jolt of energy to every curious reader, no matter the time of day. N° de réf. du vendeur CIN8415729367G
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Vendeur : TWOFACES, Alicante, A, Espagne
N° de réf. du vendeur BOX101b--2670-9-1-2025
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Vendeur : Bibliomania, Molins De Rei, B, Espagne
Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Etat : Muy bien. 1ª Edición. r5 Ex libris anterior propietario. N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1621349756617
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