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From: krantz@csd2.UUCP (Michaelntz)
Newsgroups: net.books
Subject: Re: Request for novels on bookshops and/or pipesmoking
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Date: Tue, 24-Dec-85 22:41:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 24 22:41:00 1985
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/* csd2:net.books / putnam@steinmetz.UUCP (jefu) /  4:41 am  Dec 19, 1985 */
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 also happens to be a very, very fine piece of writing.
In the interest of encouraging net.books to get more literary,
I will add that Philip Roth's "Goodbye, Columbus" has as its
protagonist a young librarian, and some portions of the story
take place in a public library.  

But tell us all, please, WHY you are looking for such books,
so we can sleep again...

Yours Literarily,


Michael Krantz, Courant Institute, 251 Mercer Street, New York, NY  10012

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