The Bookseller

- Authors
- Briscoe, Peter
- Publisher
- Palo Verde Press
- ISBN
- 9780963489883
- Date
- 2022-01-31T08:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.07 MB
- Lang
- en
SECOND ENLARGED EDITION. INTERNATIONAL LATINO BOOK AWARDS HONORABLE MENTION. READERS' FAVORITE INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS FINALIST. Five stories about professors, students, librarians, booksellers, and early scientific explorers-all living literately, on journeys of the mind. The first story, "One of Our Stars," is about a professor so engrossed in difficult studies that even a blatant sexual invitation (accepted) merely distracts him. He concentrates with the mental force of a chess grandmaster, a zen roshi, or a musical virtuoso. The next story about a female college student is set in a Colombian jungle. The third story portrays a once formidable professor coming to terms with retirement, old age, and approaching death. The fourth (title) story, novella length, takes place in an Ecuadorian library that is experiencing rampant theft. A place where some men steal books while others wonder why they bother. A literary, intellectual mystery that explores the library as a profound idea while the world rushes into a digital, post-literate future. The fifth story explores the evolving status and influence of a beautiful young female scholar who each year attends a Latin American Librarians Conference.