Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Author | : Robin Sloan |
Publisher | : Picador Paper |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-06-24 |
ISBN-10 | : 1250064554 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781250064554 |
Rating | : 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Download or read book Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore written by Robin Sloan and published by Picador Paper. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Clay Jannon, twenty-six and unemployed, reads books about vampire policemen and teenage wizards. Familiar, predictable books. Books that fit neatly into a section at the bookstore. But he is about to encounter a new species of book entirely: secret, strange, and frantically sought-after.