Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Robin Sloan
ISBN: | 9781782391210 |
Publisher: | Atlantic Books |
Published: | 27 February, 2014 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
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Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Robin Sloan
Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco Web-design drone and has landed him a new job working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. There are only a few customers, but they come in repeatedly and never seem to actually buy anything; instead they simply borrow 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' behaviour.
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