Sixpence House: Lost in A Town Of Books
by:
Paul Collins (author)
Paul Collins and his family abandoned the hills of San Francisco to move to the Welsh countryside-to move, in fact, to the village of Hay-on-Wye, the "Town of Books" that boasts fifteen hundred inhabitants-and forty bookstores. Taking readers into a secluded sanctuary for book lovers, and guiding...
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Paul Collins and his family abandoned the hills of San Francisco to move to the Welsh countryside-to move, in fact, to the village of Hay-on-Wye, the "Town of Books" that boasts fifteen hundred inhabitants-and forty bookstores. Taking readers into a secluded sanctuary for book lovers, and guiding us through the creation of the author's own first book, Sixpence House becomes a heartfelt and often hilarious meditation on what books mean to us.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781582344041 (1582344043)
Publish date: April 3rd 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
This was both what I was hoping for and not quite what I wanted. I've wanted to go to the town of Hay-on-Wye in Wales since I first heard of it several years ago; I want to spend a week there just wandering around and buying books like a sugar addict in a candy shop. Sixpence House is a book abou...
Very interesting read about a man who decides to pack up his family and move to Hay-on-Wye, the "Town of Books"! 1,500 people and 40 bookstores! Sounds like a dream to me! Excellent memoir! Not all about books, but it delves into their day to day adventures... Pick this one up! Highly recommended!
This purports to be a memoir of the author's time in Hay-on-Wye, a small town in Wales that is practically overflowing with antiquarian booksellers. Instead of his musings on what it was like to live above a bookstore and take on a job as the American literature expert in one of the booksellers' sh...
3.5 stars Enjoyable fish out of water story (author and family move to Wales from San Francisco), quite amusing in some parts. Lots of references to obscure, out of prints books.
I think this book could have been better, which is the reason I only "liked it" (thus the 3 star rating). It has a lot of good going for it, but it also has a couple of things that honestly irritated me. Let's start with the not so good: * The whole quest to find a home in the town. For the most par...
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