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Ecco

9780063085121

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Literary Fiction

The Librarianist

By Patrick deWitt

The Librarianist is another charmer from the author of The Sisters Brothers, who knows how to delight.

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Review of ‘The Librarianist’

A surefire way to get bibliophiles to root for your book is to give them a bookish protagonist like Bob Comet, the 71-year-old main character of The Librarianist, Patrick deWitt’s fifth novel. Bob prefers to communicate with the world “mainly by reading about it. . . . The truth was that people…

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