Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore
A gleeful and exhilarating tale of global conspiracy, complex code-breaking, high-tech data visualization, young love, rollicking adventure, and the secret to eternal life—mostly set in a hole-in-the-wall San Francisco bookstore
The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco Web-design drone—and serendipity, sheer curiosity, and the ability to climb a ladder like a monkey has landed him a new gig working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. But after just a few days on the job, Clay begins to realize that this store is even more curious than the name suggests. There are only a few customers, but they come in repeatedly and never seem to actually buy anything, instead “checking out” impossibly obscure volumes from strange corners of the store, all according to some elaborate, long-standing arrangement with the gnomic Mr. Penumbra. The store must be a front for something larger, Clay concludes, and soon he’s embarked on a complex analysis of the customers’ behavior and roped his friends into helping to figure out just what’s going on. But once they bring their findings to Mr. Penumbra, it turns out the secrets extend far outside the walls of the bookstore.
With irresistible brio and dazzling intelligence, Robin Sloan has crafted a literary adventure story for the twenty-first century, evoking both the fairy-tale charm of Haruki Murakami and the enthusiastic novel-of-ideas wizardry of Neal Stephenson or a young Umberto Eco, but with a unique and feisty sensibility that’s rare to the world of literary fiction.Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore is exactly what it sounds like: an establishment you have to enter and will never want to leave, a modern-day cabinet of wonders ready to give a jolt of energy to every curious reader, no matter the time of day.
Audiobooks
Bookstores
Bookstores -- California -- San Francisco -- Fiction
Bookstores -- Employees -- Fiction
Electronic books
Employees
Fantasy
Fantasy fiction
Fiction
FICTION / Literary
FICTION / Technological
Literary
Literary -- FICTION
Literature
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction
Suspense
Suspense fiction
Technological
Technological -- Thrillers
Thriller
Thrillers (Fiction)
9780374708832
9781427227423
9781427233745
9781427227430
9781250037756
Level 5.8, 12 Points
Grouping Information
Grouped Work ID | 2d4b07ed-20c2-bdde-4810-211db8b5b471 |
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Grouping Title | mr penumbras 24 hour bookstore |
Grouping Author | robin sloan |
Grouping Category | book |
Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2023-03-27 03:51:40AM |
Last Indexed | 2023-03-27 04:13:52AM |
Solr Fields
Wilson, Laura
Baker & Taylor Axis 360
Fliakos, Ari
Fliakos, Ari.|Narrator
Wilson, Laura
hoopla digital
Online OverDrive Collection
2nd Floor- Adult Books
Axis 360
Online Hoopla Collection
Online OverDrive Collection
Book on CD
eAudiobook
eBook
Books
eBook
eBooks
9780374708832
9781250037756
9781427227423
9781427227430
9781427233745
Fiction
eCollection
FIC SLOAN R.
Online
Online OverDrive
Addison Public Library Online
Online OverDrive Collection
2017
Macmillan
Macmillan Audio
Audiobooks
Bookstores -- California -- San Francisco -- Fiction
Bookstores -- Employees -- Fiction
Electronic books
FICTION / Literary
FICTION / Technological
Fantasy fiction
Literary -- FICTION
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction
Suspense fiction
Technological -- Thrillers
Thrillers (Fiction)
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore A Novel [electronic resource] Sloan, Robin, 1979-
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore Sloan, Robin.
Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore / Robin Sloan
Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore [electronic resource] / Robin Sloan
Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore [sound recording] / Robin Sloan
Employees
FICTION / Literary
FICTION / Technological
Fantasy
Fiction
Literary
Literature
Suspense
Technological
Thriller
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