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| Verlag | Bloomsbury Trade |
| Auflage | 2023 |
| Seiten | 352 |
| Format | 15,3 x 2,9 x 23,8 cm |
| Gewicht | 532 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9781526646934 |
| Bestell-Nr | 52664693UA |
The triumphant new black comic adventure from the author of the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted The Sisters Brothers
Klappentext:
__AN INTERNATIONAL No. 1 BESTSELLER__'I absolutely adored it' NINA STIBBE__Selected as a Washington Post Book of the Summer__From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes a novel about an ordinary man who thought life's surprises were behind him - until a chance encounter changed everything________________________________________________ Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books in a mint-colored house in Portland, Oregon. One morning on his daily walk he encounters a confused elderly woman lost in a market and returns her to the senior center that is her home. Hoping to fill the void he's known since retiring, he begins volunteering at the center. Here, as a community of strange peers gathers around Bob, and following a happenstance brush with a painful complication from his past, the events of his life and the details of his character are revealed. Behind Bob Comet's straight ma n facade is the story of an unhappy child's runaway adventure during the last days of the Second World War, of true love won and stolen away, of the purpose and pride found in the librarian's vocation, and the pleasures of a life lived to the side of the masses. Comet's experiences are imbued with melancholy but also a bright, sustained comedy; he has a talent for locating bizarre and outsized players to welcome onto the stage of his life. With his inimitable verve, skewed humor, and compassion for the outcast, Patrick deWitt has written a wide-ranging and ambitious document of the introvert's condition. The Librarianist celebrates the extraordinary in the so-called ordinary life, and depicts beautifully the turbulence that sometimes exists beneath a surface of serenity. ________________________________________________________________________Praise for Patrick deWitt'A triumph from a writer truly in the zone' Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette'deWitt remains a tru e original' Guardian'One of the most talented young writers around' Sunday Times
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I absolutely adored it. I loved Bob - his position over to the side of charisma and horribleness, out of the game, his notions and his demeanour ... This beautiful book took me far away from all my concerns. It's so wonderful, soothing and heartbreaking Nina Stibbe
