The dark library
(Book)
Author:
Contributors:
Stancil, Joseph Patrick, translator.
Published:
Toronto : Coach House Books, [2020].
Format:
Book
Edition:
First English-language edition.
Physical Desc:
167 pages ; 19 cm
Status:
Superior Adult Paperbacks
PB-Fiction MAR
Description
Libraries are magical places. But what if they’re even more magical than we know?
Copies
Location
Call Number
Status
Last Check-In
Superior Adult Paperbacks
PB-Fiction MAR
Available
Sep 15, 2023
More Details
Language:
English
ISBN:
155245407X, 9781552454077
Notes
General Note
"Originally published as La bibliothèque noire by Libella, Paris, 2018"--Title page verso.
Description
"Libraries are magical places. But what if they're even more magical than we know? In Cyrille Martinez's library, the books are alive: not just their ideas or their stories, but the books themselves. Meet the Angry Young Book, who has strong opinions about who reads what and why. He's tired of people reading bestsellers, so he places himself on the desks of those who might appreciate him. Meet the Old Historian who mysteriously vanished from the stacks. Meet the Blue Librarian, the Mauve Librarian, the Yellow Librarian, and spend a day with the Red Librarian trying to banish coffee cups and laptops. Then one day there are no empty desks anywhere in the Great Library. A great horde of student workers has descended, and they will scan every single book in the library: the much-borrowed, the neglected, the popular, the obscure. What will happen to the library then? Will it still be necessary? The Dark Library is a theoretical fiction, a meditation on what libraries mean in our digital world. Has the act of reading changed? What is a reader? A book? Martinez, a librarian himself, has written a love letter to the urban forest of the dark, wild library, where ideas and stories roam free."--Provided by publisher.
Language
In English. Translated from the French.
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)
Martinez, C., & Stancil, J. P. (2020). The dark library. First English-language edition. Toronto, Coach House Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Martinez, Cyrille, 1972- and Joseph Patrick, Stancil. 2020. The Dark Library. Toronto, Coach House Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Martinez, Cyrille, 1972- and Joseph Patrick, Stancil, The Dark Library. Toronto, Coach House Books, 2020.
MLA Citation (style guide)Martinez, Cyrille and Joseph Patrick Stancil. The Dark Library. First English-language edition. Toronto, Coach House Books, 2020.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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