The book of speculation

541 pages

English language

Published Feb. 9, 2015 by Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning.

ISBN:
978-1-4104-8243-3
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OCLC Number:
908084505

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Simon Watson, a young librarian on the verge of losing his job, lives alone on the Long Island Sound in his family home -- a house, perched on the edge of a bluff, that is slowly crumbling toward the sea. His parents are long dead, his mother having drowned in the water his house overlooks. His younger sister, Enola, works for a traveling carnival reading tarot cards, and seldom calls. On a day in late June, Simon receives a mysterious package from an antiquarian bookseller. The book tells the story of Amos and Evangeline, doomed lovers who lived and worked in a traveling circus more than two hundred years ago. The paper crackles with age as Simon turns the yellowed pages filled with notes, sketches, and whimsical flourishes; and his best friend and fellow librarian, Alice, looks on in increasing alarm. Why does his grandmother's name, Verona Bonn, appear in …

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Historiaa ja nykypäivää maagisesti yhdistelevä kertomus Amerikan varhaisista sirkussuvuista. Lupaavat lähtökohdat, mutta lopulta tarina kutistuu yllättävän pieneksi. Henkilöiden sympaattisuus ja heistä välittäminen on siinä ja siinä, onneksi ehkä piirun verran plussan puolella.

Subjects

  • Books and reading
  • Family secrets
  • Literary
  • Large type books
  • Librarians
  • Fiction
  • FICTION