Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore
Sloan, Robin, 1979-2014
Book
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.
Main title:
Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore / Robin Sloan.
Author:
Sloan, Robin, 1979-, author
Imprint:
London : Atlantic Books, 2014.London : Atlantic Books, 2014.
Collation:
291 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
ISBN:
9781782391210 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6FICTIONGEN
Language:
English
BRN:
1490259