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Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian

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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 , 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 look at the lives which make up the social institution that is his library.

Language: English

Pages: 330

Format: Hardcover

Release: March 24, 2008

ISBN 13: 9780786720910

Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian

0/5 ( ratings)

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 , 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 look at the lives which make up the social institution that is his library.

Language: English

Pages: 330

Format: Hardcover

Release: March 24, 2008

ISBN 13: 9780786720910

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