The Bookshop Strikes Back Independents Pack

Description

You may have heard the news that the independent bookstore is dead, that books are dead, that maybe even reading is dead - to which I say, Pull up a chair, friend. I have a story to tell. One morning, Ann Patchett woke up to find her city no longer had a bookshop. Surely, she thought, someone would open another. So she waited, daydreaming all the while about the bookshops of her childhood: ones that valued books over muffins; where staff passionately introduced readers to new writing; where buying a book was a social experience. And then she decided to take matters into her own hands and open her own bookshop. A prize-winning novelist turned champion of independent booksellers, Ann Patchett celebrates the sheer joy of local bookshops in this inspiring essay.

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Orange Prize-winning novelist turned famous independent bookseller, Ann Patchett champions local bookshops everywhere in this charming booklet

Reviews

PRAISE FOR STATE OF WONDER: 'Riverting and supremely moving Maggie O'Farrell A triumph and Patchett's best book yet Guardian The best book I have read all year. It made me laugh and weep and left me in a state of wonder: perfect from first page to last ... a masterpiece Emma Donoghue Every so often I read something that makes me want to press it ferverantly and evangelliacally onto everyone I meet ... I loved this Joanna Trollope, Sunday Telegraph There is a stillness and beauty to Ann Patchett's writing that takes the breath away The Times

Author description

Ann Patchett is the author of six novels, including Run and Bel Canto, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and most recently, the New York Times bestseller State of Wonder, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2012. She writes for the New York Times Magazine, Elle, GQ, the Financial Times, the Paris Review and Vogue. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.