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From: putnam@steinmetz.UUCP (jefu)
Newsgroups: net.books
Subject: Re: Request for novels on bookshops and/or pipesmoking
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Date: Thu, 19-Dec-85 04:41:28 EST
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In article <4274@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> steiner@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Dave Steiner) writes:
>I'm looking for novels (mysteries and SF especially, but not
>exclusively) that are about books/bookshops in some way.  I've just
>picked up two mysteries that fall into this catagory:
>
>Bodies in a Bookshop, by R.T. Campbell 
>The Haunted Bookshop, by Christopher Morley
>
>Anyone know of any others?

"If on a Winters Night a Traveller" by Italo Calvino.

This probably doesnt count as being about bookshops, but it is certainly about
books.  It does have a section on bookshops and the book-o-phile which is
very true and funny -- its so good im tempted to quote a bit.  (I'll resist
the temptation because the last time i took it off the shelf and started to
look at it, i rapidly got completely absorbed in it and couldnt put it down).  

Read it anyway.

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