This is a well wrought story of intrigue, mystery, murder, and plagiarism among book sellers and writers.
And at the same time, McCaffrey writes about the demise of the book store. This he attributes to the authors who are part of the system, who write processed bestsellers and to the people who buy them because they saw an ad on TV. The book store’s whole thing was to “keep all those authors alive who wrote so well but got passed by in the bestseller parade.” And this is the same reason that the Strasburg Library has put together the Small Press Collection of which this novel is a part.
--Sue
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