The Secret of Lost Things
by:
Sheridan Hay (author)
Eighteen years old and completely alone, Rosemary arrives in New York from Tasmania with little other than her love of books and an eagerness to explore the city. Taking a job at a vast, chaotic emporium of used and rare books called the Arcade, she knows she has found a home. But when Rosemary...
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Eighteen years old and completely alone, Rosemary arrives in New York from Tasmania with little other than her love of books and an eagerness to explore the city. Taking a job at a vast, chaotic emporium of used and rare books called the Arcade, she knows she has found a home. But when Rosemary reads a letter from someone seeking to “place” a lost manuscript by Herman Melville, the bookstore erupts with simmering ambitions and rivalries. Including actual correspondence by Melville, The Secret of Lost Things is at once a literary adventure and evocative portrait of a young woman making a life for herself in the city.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780307277336 (030727733X)
Publish date: March 11th 2008
Publisher: Anchor
Pages no: 349
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Writing,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Books About Books,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Mystery,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary,
New York,
Australia
In this coming of age story of a young Tasmanian girl, wallflower Rosemary, only Walter Geist, both a tragic character and albino, is truly interesting. And perhaps Oscar, at first. With his handsome looks that seemingly - nonsense of course - contradict his a-sexuality. The other characters populat...
Not bad but certainly disappointing. Having read Byats's "Possession" and Carlos Ruiz Zafón's "The shadow of the wind" (ok, and admitting that I dumbly assumed their influence on Hay's story), I expected much more.Without the prejudices, "The secret of lost things" could be a good companion for a so...
This was a somewhat interesting read. I liked the setting of the bookstore and the idea of a lost novel, but the characters lacked development and were somewhat unbelievable. I was expecting more from this book.
I really like a lot of the odd characters in this book, but the story seemed "much ado about nothing", and the whole pursuit if the missing manuscript is a very dull story. The one segment that held some intimacy between characters was just plain yucky and ruined the entire book for me.
I thought I would really like this book but I'm sorry to say was disappointed. A young girl named Rosemary comes to New York City following the death of her mother and secures a job in a bookstore called the Arcade that deals in rare and valuable books. There were several employees of the bookstore...
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