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Nombre: Against Amazon: and Other Essays (Biblioasis International Translation Series, 30) (Libro en Inglés)
Marca: Biblioasis

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A NEW YORK TIMES NEW & NOTEWORTHY BOOK
Good bookshops are questions without answers. They are places that provoke you intellectually, encode riddles, surprise and offer challenges ... A pleasing labyrinth where you cant get lost: that comes later, at home, when you immerse yourself in the books you have bought; lose yourself in new questions, knowing you will find answers.
Picking up where the widely praised Bookshops: A Readers History left off, Against Amazon and Other Essays explores the increasing pressures of Amazon and other new technologies on bookshops and libraries. In essays on these vital social, cultural, and intellectual spaces, Jorge Carrión travels from London to Geneva, from Miamis Little Havana to Argentina, from his own well-loved childhood library to the rosewood shelves of Jules Vernes Nautilus and the innovative spaces that characterize South Koreas bookshop renaissance. Including interviews with writers and librariansincluding Alberto Manguel, Iain Sinclair, Luigi Amara, and Han Kang, among othersAgainst Amazon is equal parts a celebration of books and bookshops, an autobiography of a reader, a travelogue, a love letterand, most urgently, a manifesto against the corrosive influence of late capitalism.

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Praise for Against Amazon and Other Essays
This is just the sort of book that bibliophilesto say nothing of bibliomaniacswill enjoy ... A subtle pleasure for lovers of the printed word, even if they order books from the leviathan.Kirkus Reviews
Against Amazon is an optimistic overall take on books, reading and retailing and an attempt to avoid ending up knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing.Winnipeg Free Press
Praise for Jorge Carrións Bookshops: A Readers History
The perfect merging of love of travel and literature.Buzzfeed
[Carrións] purpose is to celebrate bookstores. And he does so by wandering the globe in search of those that playor have playeda special role in the intellectual and social lives of their communities. They become Carrións personal mappa mundi.New York Times
Every bookshop is a condensed version of the world, begins Mr. Carrións literary and unabashedly sentimental exploration of bookstores around the globe . . . [Carrion] wanders through volume-laden aisles in Athens, Paris, Bratislava, Budapest, Tangier and Sydney, and invokes many other shops, both open and closed, telling stories about writers, readers and literary circles . . . By the end, you may feel poorly readbut well armed with titles and bookshops to visit on your own.Wall Street Journal
Carrión explores the fine lines between pilgrimage destination, touristy gimmick, and decent bookshop. This is the perfect book for those who feel compelled to visit every bookstore they see.Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Excellent . . . entertaining . . . this quietly intelligent little book speaks volumes.Michael Dirda, Washington Post
Sublimely entrancing . . . brilliant . . . [Carrións] Borgesian bookit can be opened at any point and read forward, or backwards for that matteris not at all sad. To read is to travel in time and space, and to travel from bookshop to bookshop is an ecstatic experience for Carrión, a joy he conveys page after page. Macleans

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Picking up where the widely praised Bookshops: A Readers History left off, Against Amazon explores the increasing pressures of Amazon and other new technologies on bookshops and libraries. Collecting the authors essays on these vital social, cultural, and intellectual spaces, as well as his interviews with the writers who love themincluding Alberto Manguel, Iain Sinclair, Luigi Amara and Han Kang, among othersAgainst Amazon is equal parts a history of books and bookshops, an autobiography of a reader, a travelogue, a love letterand, most urgently, a manifesto against the corrosive pressures of late capitalism.

About the Author

Jorge Carrións Bookshops: A Readers Hi

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-Idioma: Inglés
-Envío: Desde EE. UU.
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Tiempo de entrega: 10 días
Peso del paquete: 1 kg
Medidas: 5 cm x 22 cm x 27 cm cm
Material: Papel
Modelo: 9781771963039
Meses de garantía: 1
Garantía: Por defecto de fabricación
Condición: Nuevo
Color: Multicolor
Nombre de color: Multicolor
ASIN: 1771963034
País de producción: United States
Encuadernado: Pasta blanda
Editorial: Biblioasis
Titulo del libro: Against Amazon: and Other Essays (Biblioasis International Translation Series, 30) (Libro en Inglés)
Autor: Carrión, Jorge
Fecha de publicación: 2020
Idioma: Inglés
Edición: 1
Número de páginas: 280
ISBN-13: 9781771963039
Edad mínima sugerida: 6
Genero musical: Literatura Universal
Contenido del paquete: 1 pieza
SKU: 9781771963039