The Librarianist
Patrick deWitt
Literary Fiction
The Librarianist
by Patrick deWitt
· 353 p
Washington Post Book of the SummerInternational Number One Bestsellerreflective
Overview
About
AN INTERNATIONAL No. 1 BESTSELLER 'I absolutely adored it' NINA STIBBE Selected as a Washington Post Book of the Summer From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes a novel about an ordinary man who thought life's surprises were behind him – until a chance encounter changed everything ________________________________________________ Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books in a mint-colored house in Portland, Oregon. One morning on his dail…
Pages
353
Bloomsbury Publishing
Linguistic complexity
3/5
Moderate
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Reader feel
Character Studies9
Prose8
Emotional depth8
Narration8
Comic Melancholy8
Pacing6
Plot twists5
Worldbuilding4
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