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An alphabetical life : living it up in the world of books / Wendy Werris.
- Title
- An alphabetical life : living it up in the world of books / Wendy Werris.
- Author
- Werris, Wendy.
- Publication
- New York : Carroll & Graf, 2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | Z473.W537 A3 2006x | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 292 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- During the summer of 1970, the author at age 19, strolled into Hollywood's Pickwick Bookshop, a renowned bookstore that attracted street people as well as celebrities. She intended to buy a Charles Bukowski anthology, and walked out not only with the book but also with the job that would set her life's course. The author tells the story of her peripatetic and gutsy book-selling career in a matter-of-fact memoir that eulogizes expert and eccentric independent booksellers of yesteryear and chronicles the rise of the discount chains. Also tells the story of women in the workforce as she remembers her demanding years on the road as a publisher's rep when few women traveled sales circuits solo. She recounts mentors and colleagues, relating brushes with celebrities, disclosing personal suffering, and sharing her tireless love for books.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Autobiography
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Autobiographies.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- A soliloquy for Pickwick Bookshop -- Gathering moss at rolling stone -- A young lady salesman -- The Garp chronicles -- Wise women, cheap books -- Don t get up, gentlemen . . . -- No reps for the wicked -- True crime -- A requiem; a renaissance -- Pickwick Bookshop redux.
- ISBN
- 078671817X
- 9780786718177
- OCLC
- 71816438
- SCSB-11590291
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library