Notes of a Bookseller
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Notes of a Bookseller
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Among high mountains and clear lakes, pastoral meadows with grazing sheep, chivalric castles and protected heath fields, on the expanse of the country praised by Robert Burns and Walter Scott, there is a small town with a rural biography. In this town is Scotland's largest bookshop, owned by a man with a difficult character. He sells mostly old books, both the most common, rare and antique, and likes to call himself a misanthrope, as the customers, what is to say, often behave capriciously and defiantly. A Luddite of our time, Sean Bythell has been demonstratively shooting up the Kindle, and has long and openly spoken out against the glut of online technology (and, in parentheses, all things impersonal and stamped). But a misanthrope? No misanthrope could be as sensitive to psychology, humor, nature, beauty, have as many friends as Sean Bythell, participate actively in the cultural life of the city - the Wigtown Book Festival and other important events - and be, contrary to all the anecdotes about the stinginess of the Scots, generous and magnanimous. In his ironic, witty, sometimes deliberately direct, but certainly talented narration everyone will find something for themselves - someone will be interested in the everyday life of a bookstore, someone will hear the call to visit Scotland, someone will want to read this or that great book following the thinking and feeling author. And surely everyone will be delighted to meet old characters from The Bookseller's Diary again, or to meet new ones.
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