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The Library Book
by Susan Orlean
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 1782392262
- ISBN 13
- 9781782392262
- Seller
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Bowral, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Atlantic Books, London, 2019. Softcover. Very Good Condition. On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual fire alarm. As one fireman recounted, "Once that first stack got going, it was 'Goodbye, Charlie.'" The fire was disastrous: it reached 2000 degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library - and if so, who? Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a mesmerizing and uniquely compelling book that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before. I 317 pages. Light tanning to pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; History; Books About Books. ISBN/EAN: 9781782392262. Inventory No: 269364.. 9781782392262
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- Bookseller
- leura books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 269364
- Title
- The Library Book
- Author
- Susan Orlean
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1782392262
- ISBN 13
- 9781782392262
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2019
- Keywords
- BZDB43 History; History; Books About Books. Unbranded EAN: 9781782392262 Susan Orlean The Library Book
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