num_pages: 304
description: 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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
language: English
title: The Secret of Lost Things
titlecomplete: The Secret of Lost Things
characters: Pearl Baird, Esther Chapman, George Pike, Rosemary Savage, Jack Conway, Oscar Jarno, Julian Peabody, Walter Geist, Lillian La Paco, Arthur Pick, Robert Mitchell, Bruno Gurvich
genres: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Books About Books, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Australia, New York, Mystery, Coming Of Age
ratings_count: 4057
publisher: Fourth Estate