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Ajax Penumbra 1969

Ajax Penumbra 1969( )
Author: Sloan, Robin
ISBN:978-0-374-71184-9
Publication Date:Sep 2013
Publisher:Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Book Format:Ebook
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Book Description:

From Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, the story of Mr. Penumbra's first trip to San Francisco--and of how he got entangled with the city's most unusual always-open enterprise... It is August 1969. The Summer of Love is a fading memory. The streets of San Francisco pulse to the sounds of Led Zeppelin and Marvin Gaye. And of jackhammers: A futuristic pyramid of a skyscraper is rising a few blocks from City Lights bookstore and an...
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Book Details
Pages:96
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Fiction / City Life
Author Biography
Sloan, Robin (Author)


Robin Sloan was born and raised in Michigan, He attended Michigan State University where he majored in economics and co-founded a literary magazine called Oats. He published his first novel, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, in 2012. It was about a laid- off Silicon Valley tech worker who gets a job in an old bookstore and starts discovering one secret after another. Along with the store's owner, the old books lead to a 500 year old secret society. His other title's include: Ajax Penumbra and Sourdough: A Novel.

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