Part love story, part thriller, part book lover s fantasy and entirely charming Christopher Morley s tale has something for everyoneSet in a lovingly evoked Brooklyn just after the end of World War I, "The Haunted Bookshop" cleverly juxtaposes a pair of middle-aged bookshop owners and two young lovers with...
a nest of German saboteurs, complete with mysterious clues, red herrings, blushing romance, derring-do, a desperate race to the rescue, and an explosion.
More important, the novel is an eloquent hymn to the bookseller s trade and a fervent plea for the revivifying and redemptive power of literature.
The unifying thread of this book, and indeed of the life and work of its author, is its passionate avowal: all that the world and everybody in it needs is a good book."
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