The Library of Unrequited Love

The Library of Unrequited Love

Sophie Divry
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Author:  Sophie Divry
Condition:  New
Format:  Paperback
Pages:  96
Publisher:  Quercus Publishing
Year:  2014
ISBN:  9781780870519

One morning a librarian finds a reader who has been locked in overnight.

She begins to talk to him, a one-way conversation full of sharp insight and quiet outrage. As she rails against snobbish senior colleagues, an ungrateful and ignorant public, the strictures of the Dewey Decimal System and the sinister expansionist conspiracies of the books themselves, two things shine through: her unrequited passion for a researcher named Martin, and an ardent and absolute love for the arts.

A delightful divertissement for the discerning bookworm...

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