description: A stunning debut from a new Australian writer -- the story of a treasure hunt through a vast New York bookshop! At eighteen, Rosemary arrives in New York from Tasmania with little more than her love of books and an eagerness to explore the city she's read so much about. The moment she steps into the Arcade bookstore, she knows she has found a home. The gruff owner, Mr. Pike, gives her a job sorting through huge piles of books and helping the rest of the staff -- a group as odd and idiosyncratic as the characters in a Dickens novel. It is Rosemary who first reads the letter from someone seeking to 'place' a lost manuscript by Herman Melville. Based on actual documents the author found while doing research on Melville, 'The Secret of Lost Things' is at once a literary adventure that captures the excitement of discovering a long-lost manuscript, and an evocative portrait of life in a bookshop.
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: Doubleday