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Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore / Robin Sloan.

By: Sloan, Robin, 1979- [author.]Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Picador, c2012Edition: First Picador EditionDescription: 288 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781250037756 [paperback]Other title: Mister Penumbra's twenty-four hour bookstoreSubject(s): Bookstores -- Employees -- Fiction | Bookstores -- California -- San Francisco -- FictionGenre/Form: Fantasy fiction. | Adventure fiction. | Suspense fiction. | Fiction.

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Contents: The bookstore -- The library -- The tower -- Epilogue

Summary: 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. The customers are few, and they never seem to buy anything―instead, they "check out" large, obscure volumes from strange corners of the store. Suspicious, Clay engineers an analysis of the clientele's behavior, seeking help from his variously talented friends. But when they bring their findings to Mr. Penumbra, they discover the bookstore's secrets extend far beyond its walls. Rendered with irresistible brio and dazzling intelligence, Robin Sloan's Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore is exactly what it sounds like: an establishment you have to enter and will never want to leave.

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Contents: The bookstore -- The library -- The tower -- Epilogue

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. The customers are few, and they never seem to buy anything―instead, they "check out" large, obscure volumes from strange corners of the store. Suspicious, Clay engineers an analysis of the clientele's behavior, seeking help from his variously talented friends. But when they bring their findings to Mr. Penumbra, they discover the bookstore's secrets extend far beyond its walls. Rendered with irresistible brio and dazzling intelligence, Robin Sloan's Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore is exactly what it sounds like: an establishment you have to enter and will never want to leave.