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The Library Book

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Susan Orlean
Simon & Schuster
2018-10-16
336
GBP 21.53
Hardcover
9781476740188

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On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual fire alarm. As one fireman recounted, “Once that first stack got going, it was ‘Goodbye, Charlie.’” The fire was disastrous: it reached 2000 degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who?

Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a mesmerizing and uniquely compelling book that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before.

In The Library Book, Orlean chronicles the LAPL fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries across the country and around the world, from their humble beginnings as a metropolitan charitable initiative to their current status as a cornerstone of national identity; brings each department of the library to vivid life through on-the-ground reporting; studies arson and attempts to burn a copy of a book herself; reflects on her own experiences in libraries; and reexamines the case of Harry Peak, the blond-haired actor long suspected of setting fire to the LAPL more than thirty years ago.

Along the way, Orlean introduces us to an unforgettable cast of characters from libraries past and present—from Mary Foy, who in 1880 at eighteen years old was named the head of the Los Angeles Public Library at a time when men still dominated the role, to Dr. C.J.K. Jones, a pastor, citrus farmer, and polymath known as “The Human Encyclopedia” who roamed the library dispensing information; from Charles Lummis, a wildly eccentric journalist and adventurer who was determined to make the L.A. library one of the best in the world, to the current staff, who do heroic work every day to ensure that their institution remains a vital part of the city it serves.

Brimming with her signature wit, insight, compassion, and talent for deep research, The Library Book is Susan Orlean’s thrilling journey through the stacks that reveals how these beloved institutions provide much more than just books—and why they remain an essential part of the heart, mind, and soul of our country. It is also a master journalist’s reminder that, perhaps especially in the digital era, they are more necessary than ever.

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著者简介

Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. She is the author of seven books, including Rin Tin Tin, Saturday Night, and The Orchid Thief, which was made into the Academy Award–winning film Adaptation. She lives with her family and her animals in upstate New York and may be reached at SusanOrlean.com and Twitter.com/SusanOrlean.


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喜欢一切有关书的书。洛杉矶公共图书馆的大火的前前后后,写得详尽,但是并不繁琐。

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听的audio book,读书的大姐实在让人走神。。好像还是作者本人????还是表达一下对美国public library的喜爱

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一本作者写给图书馆的情书 ???????????? 主角当之无愧是洛杉矶的中央图书馆,作者由1986年图书馆大火开篇,讲述了很多关于图书馆历史,建筑、历任馆长的轶事、现任图书馆管理员的人物描写、图书馆的未来等等的故事和观点。有些章节稍微单调了一点,作者的章节编排看不出什么”连贯性”,估计是内涵太深我理解不了吧,哈哈。

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将洛杉矶图书馆大火和一些有的没的,以一种日式漫画绝招五分钟回忆三个月的节奏写出来。

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I can relate with a great deal of what the author described about the library. It was a sanctuary to me and always will be. If there were another life, I wish I could be a librarian. Great book! Too much detail though.

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1986年4月29号,一场燃烧了七个半小时的熊熊烈火,烧毁/损坏了洛杉矶中央图书馆一半的藏书,超过一百万册。堪称美国历史上最严重、损失最惨重的一次图书馆大火。这次失火后中央图书馆关张整整六年。几十万册被火烧烟熏水浸过的图书(其中包括多个全国最大的collection)被紧急...  

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1986年4月29号,一场燃烧了七个半小时的熊熊烈火,烧毁/损坏了洛杉矶中央图书馆一半的藏书,超过一百万册。堪称美国历史上最严重、损失最惨重的一次图书馆大火。这次失火后中央图书馆关张整整六年。几十万册被火烧烟熏水浸过的图书(其中包括多个全国最大的collection)被紧急...  

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1986年4月29号,一场燃烧了七个半小时的熊熊烈火,烧毁/损坏了洛杉矶中央图书馆一半的藏书,超过一百万册。堪称美国历史上最严重、损失最惨重的一次图书馆大火。这次失火后中央图书馆关张整整六年。几十万册被火烧烟熏水浸过的图书(其中包括多个全国最大的collection)被紧急...  

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1986年4月29号,一场燃烧了七个半小时的熊熊烈火,烧毁/损坏了洛杉矶中央图书馆一半的藏书,超过一百万册。堪称美国历史上最严重、损失最惨重的一次图书馆大火。这次失火后中央图书馆关张整整六年。几十万册被火烧烟熏水浸过的图书(其中包括多个全国最大的collection)被紧急...  

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1986年4月29号,一场燃烧了七个半小时的熊熊烈火,烧毁/损坏了洛杉矶中央图书馆一半的藏书,超过一百万册。堪称美国历史上最严重、损失最惨重的一次图书馆大火。这次失火后中央图书馆关张整整六年。几十万册被火烧烟熏水浸过的图书(其中包括多个全国最大的collection)被紧急...  

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