The Haunted Bookshop
Released: Sep 16, 2014
Publisher: Skyboat Media, Inc. and Blackstone Audio
Format: MP3 CD, 1 pages
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Description:
[Read by Stefan Rudnicki][Directed by Cassandra de Cuir]Part love story, part thriller, part book lover's fantasy - and entirely charming - Christopher Morley's tale has something for everyone. In 1917, Christopher Morley published Parnassus on Wheels, a love letter to the art of bookselling. Its suspenseful sequel, The Haunted Bookshop, finds his beloved characters married and still in love with both mystery and literature. Set in a lovingly evoked Brooklyn just after the end of World War I, The Haunted Bookshop cleverly juxtaposes a pair of middle-aged bookshop owners and two young lovers with a nest of German saboteurs, complete with mysterious clues, red herrings, blushing romance, derring-do, a desperate race to the rescue, and an explosion. More important, the novel is an eloquent hymn to the bookseller's trade and a fervent plea for the revivifying and redemptive power of literature. The unifying thread of this book, and indeed of the life and work of its author, is its passionate avowal: all that the world and everybody in it needs is a good book.
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