In the Stacks: Short Stories About Libraries and Librarians - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0715633155 ISBN 13: 9780715633151

Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

An anthology of short stories in defence of reading by some of the greatest practitioners of the genre, including Isaac Babel, Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, Alice Munro, Lori Moore and H.H. Munro (Saki). IN THE STACKS, edited by America's leading librarian, is a volume of most unusual stories about that most evocative place: the library. For many writers and bookworms the local public library was the portal the imagination first stepped across. This volume collects the cream of twentieth century short fiction writing about libraries and librarians and the terrors and pleasures contained in books - from Borge's 'The Library of Babel' to John Cheever's 'Trouble of Marcie Flint' and Lorrie Moore's 'Community Life'. Lunacy, love, obsession and the joy of reading are all gathered together in a volume most would agree is long overdue.

About this title

About the Author

Michael Cart's books include 'Tomorrowland', a collection of stories for young adults, 'What's So Funny: Wit and Humour in American Children's Literature', and 'From Romance to Realism: Fifty Years of Growth and Change in Young Adult Literature'. He was the director of the Beverly Hills Public Library for many years and has been the children's book editor for Parent's magazine and is columnist for Booklist.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0715633155
• ISBN 13: 9780715633151
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Cart Michael