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The librarianist : a novel Book
Book | House of Anansi Press Inc., [Toronto] : 2023.

Book Large Print Book
  • 10 of 16 Copies Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
  • 4 current holds with 16 total copies.
Place Hold
Branch Call Number Location Holdable? Status
Rittenhouse - Vineland FIC DeWit 2023 Fiction Not holdable Available
Seaway FIC DeWit Fiction Copy hold / Volume hold Checked out
Smithville ADU FIC DEW Fiction Copy hold / Volume hold Available
Thorold FIC DEWIT Fiction Copy hold / Volume hold Available
Welland Main FIC DeWit Fiction Copy hold / Volume hold Available
Welland Main FIC DeWit New - Fiction Copy hold / Volume hold Checked out
About

Bog Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books and small comforts in a mint-colored house in Portland, Oregon. One morning on his daily walk he encounters a confused elderly woman lost in a market and returns her to the senior center that is her home. Hoping to fill the void he's known since retiring, he begins volunteering at the center. Here, as a community of strange peers gathers around Bob, and following a happenstance brush with a painful complication from his past, the events of his life and the details of his character are revealed. Behind Bob Comet's straight-man façade is the story of an unhappy child's runaway adventure during the last days of the Second World War, of true love won and stolen away, of the purpose and pride found in the librarian's vocation, and of the pleasures of a life lived to the side of the masses. Bob's experiences are imbued with melancholy but also a bright, sustained comedy; he has a talent for locating bizarre and outsized players to welcome onto the stage of his life.
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Details

  • ISBN: 9781487009915 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 342 pages ; 24 cmprint
  • Publisher: [Toronto] : House of Anansi Press Inc., 2023.

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