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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'd 24-Hour Book-Store 2017, Robin Sloan
- Language
- Released
- 2017
- Binding
- (Hardcover)
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- Title
- Mr. Penumbra'd 24-Hour Book-Store 2017
- Subtitle
- Mr. Penumbra'd 24-Hour Book-Store
- Language
- Ukrainian
- Authors
- Robin Sloan
- Publisher
- Vivat
- Released
- 2017
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN10
- 6176909791
- ISBN13
- 9786176909798
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Mystery Novels, Love, Sci-Fi, Contemporary Fiction, Short Stories, USA, American Literature, Technology, Secrets, Future, About Books, Internet, Riddles, Present, 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.