- Fiction, contemporary, fantasy, Employees
The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon away from life as a San Francisco web-design drone and into the aisles of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, but after a few days on the job, Clay discovers that the store is more curious than either its name or its gnomic owner might suggest.
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Contemporary, classical in form, warm and cool.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Robin Sloan, Robin Sloan, Ari Fliakos, Robin Sloane
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, Brand: Macmillan Audio
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780374708832
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On Open Library, 66 have read it and 52 want to.
“Lost in the shadows of the shelves, I almost fall off the ladder.”
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