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May 28, 20 every once in a while you find a book that so perfectly explores your interests that youre overwhelmed. Told partly from the point of view of a modernday book restorer, the reader is given an insiders tour of book trading, restoring and intrigue as the history of the book unfolds back to its beginning. The bookmans tale charlie lovett, 20 viking press 368 pp. It forms a chain long and strange enough to tie a heartbroken young scholar from. A mysterious portrait ignites an antiquarian booksellers search through time and the works of shakespeare for his lost love. Alices adventures in wonderland and through the lookingglass.
Charlie lovett s the bookmans tale is a literary mystery spiced with intrigue and conspiracy. Lovett knows his stuff about shakespeare, rare books, and the passions that both inspire, and he weaves from these a delicious tale of love, loss, and the thrill of discovery. The bookmans tale ebook by charlie lovett 9781101622803. Charlie lovett first delighted readers with his new york times bestselling debut, the bookmans tale.
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