![]() ![]() Orlean has been a staff writer for The New York Times ever since 1992 and has authored eight books so far, including The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup, My Kind of Place, and Rin Tin Tin. Susan Orlean is an American journalist and bestselling author, hailed as “national treasure” by several publications. “A dazzling love letter to a beloved institution” and “an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries” ( The Washington Post), The Library Book is the book for every book lover out there especially the hundreds of thousands of members of the Los Angeles Public Library. If you love the smell of napalm… oh, sorry – old books in the morning if you prefer a cozy afternoon with a novel tucked under a blanket to a crazy night at a techno club if you’ve got an allergy to dust, and yet can’t help visiting the local library at least once a week ever since your student days – then The Library Book will strike a few chords in your heart. ![]() Who Should Read “The Library Book”? And Why? Until it’s not anymore a story about a fire – but a story about libraries and books and memory and what it means to be a human being. Susan Orlean’s The Library Book tells the full story. On the morning of April 29, 1986, “the most difficult fire in the history of Los Angeles” destroyed over one million priceless books in the Los Angeles Public Library. ![]()
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