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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.
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Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan
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- Released
- 2013
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Robin Sloan
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Released
- 2013
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN10
- 1782391193
- ISBN13
- 9781782391197
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Mystery Novels, Love, Sci-Fi, Contemporary Fiction, Short Stories, USA, American Literature, Technology, Secrets, About Books, Future, Internet, Present, Riddles, Debut, Libraries, San Francisco, Bookstores, Secret Societies, Immortality, Progress, Google, Letterpress printing, Ciphers, Silicon Valley
- First published
- 2012
- Original title
- Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
- Rating
- 3.7 out of 5
- Description
- 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.