Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian (10th Anniversary Edition) Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian (10th Anniversary Edition)

Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian (10th Anniversary Edition‪)‬

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Publisher Description

A humorist and honest look at life in public service.

For most of us, librarians are the quiet people behind the desk, who, apart from the occasional "shush," vanish into the background. 

But in Quiet, Please, McSweeney's contributor Scott Douglas puts the quirky caretakers of our literature front and center. With a keen eye for the absurd and a Kesey-esque cast of characters (witness the librarian who is sure Thomas Pynchon is Julia Roberts's latest flame), Douglas takes us where few readers have gone before. 

Punctuated by his own highly subjective research into library history-from Andrew Carnegie's Gilded Age to today's Afghanistan-Douglas gives us a surprising (and sometimes hilarious) look at the lives which make up the social institution that is his library.

This 10th Anniversary Edition includes nearly 100 pages of added content (including a new forward and afterward).

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2020
August 20
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
395
Pages
PUBLISHER
SD Editions
SELLER
Draft2Digital, LLC
SIZE
8
MB

Customer Reviews

BellaOfTheShire ,

Quiet, Please

Take a peek inside the hidden tales of a library. Scott Douglas offers this invitation. With a plethora of footnotes to explain every nuance of his remembrances, he shares the amusing and disturbing that happens among the books.
Having worked in a library, I found some of the stories hauntingly familiar. I did find the typos and formatting issues in a “commemorative” edition distracting and unexpected.

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