The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
He has produced a work of popular history that is both entertaining and informative ... Despite its high degree of anecdotal liveliness, The Bookshop slowly grows quietly, unavoidably elegiac ... Clear-eyed.
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A spirited defense ... Friss’s book is organized like the best of such literary emporiums: a little higgledy-piggledy, with surprise diversions here and there ... Considers how little overhead is required to nourish the fundamental human hunger for knowledge.
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An engaging history ... Friss...has made the shrewd decision to tell the story of American bookselling through the lives of its most interesting and colorful practitioners.
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