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Klappentext**AN INTERNATIONAL No. 1 BESTSELLER**'I absolutely adored it' NINA STIBBE**Selected as a Washington Post Book of the Summer**From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes a novel about an ordinary man who thought life´s surprises were behind him - until a chance encounter changed everything________________________________________________ Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books in a mint-colored house in Portland, Oregon. One morning on his daily walk he encounters a confused elderly woman lost in a market and returns her to the senior center that is her home. Hoping to fill the void he´s known since retiring, he begins volunteering at the center. Here, as a community of strange peers gathers around Bob, and following a happenstance brush with a painful complication from his past, the events of his life and the details of his character are revealed. Behind Bob Comet´s straight man facade is the story of an unhappy child´s runaway adventure during the last days of the Second World War, of true love won and stolen away, of the purpose and pride found in the librarian´s vocation, and the pleasures of a life lived to the side of the masses. Comet´s experiences are imbued with melancholy but also a bright, sustained comedy; he has a talent for locating bizarre and outsized players to welcome onto the stage of his life. With his inimitable verve, skewed humor, and compassion for the outcast, Patrick deWitt has written a wide-ranging and ambitious document of the introvert´s condition. The Librarianist celebrates the extraordinary in the so-called ordinary life, and depicts beautifully the turbulence that sometimes exists beneath a surface of serenity. ________________________________________________________________________Praise for Patrick deWitt'A triumph from a writer truly in the zone' Maria Semple, author of Where´d You Go, Bernadette'deWitt remains a true original' Guardian'One of the most talented young writers around' Sunday Times
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-5266-4689-7
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Erscheinungsjahr2023
Erscheinungsdatum06.07.2023
Seiten352 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 155 mm, Höhe 240 mm, Dicke 34 mm
Gewicht652 g
Artikel-Nr.60182201
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GenreRomane Hardcover