Description
Susan Orlean’s bestseller and New York Times Outstanding Guide is “a sheer pleasure…as wealthy in perception and as various because the treasures contained at the cabinets in any native library” (USA TODAY)—a stunning love letter to a liked establishment and an research into one in all its largest mysteries. “Everyone who loves books must take a look at The Library Book” (The Washington Post).
On the morning of April 28, 1986, a hearth alarm sounded within the Los Angeles Public Library. The fireplace used to be disastrous: it reached thousand levels and burned for greater than seven hours. By the point it used to be extinguished, it had ate up 400 thousand books and broken 700 thousand extra. Investigators descended at the scene, however greater than thirty years later, the thriller continues to be: Did anyone purposefully set fireplace to the library—and if that is so, who?
Weaving her lifelong love of books and studying into an research of The fireplace, award-profitable New Yorker reporter and New York Occasions bestselling writer Susan Orlean can provide a “pleasant…mirrored image at the previous, provide, and long term of libraries in The united states” (New York magazine) that manages to inform the wider tale of libraries and librarians in some way that hasn’t ever been performed prior to.
In the “exquisitely written, constantly pleasing” (The New York Times) The Library Book, Orlean chronicles the LAPL fireplace and its aftermath to exhibit the bigger, the most important function that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries; brings each and every division of the library to vibrant lifestyles; research arson and makes an attempt to burn a replica of a Guide herself; and reexamines the case of Harry Top, the blond-haired actor lengthy suspected of atmosphere fireplace to the LAPL greater than thirty years in the past.
“A Guide lover’s dream…an ambitiously researched, elegantly written Guide that serves as a portal into a spot of historical past, drama, tradition, and tales” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis), Susan Orlean’s exciting adventure throughout the stacks unearths how those liked establishments supply a lot more than simply books—and why they continue to be an very important a part of the guts, thoughts, and soul of our us of a.
