Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore
By: Robin Sloan
Edition: First Canadian edition.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; Harper Collins Canada
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781443415781
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Bookstores; Fiction; Employees
Other titles: Mister Penumbra's twenty-four hour bookstore
Description: The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco web-design drone and landed him a new gig working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. But after just a few days on the job, Clay begins to realize that this store is even more curious than the name suggests. There are only a few customers, but they come in repeatedly and never seem to actually buy anything. Soon he embarks on a complex analysis of the customers' behaviour and ropes his friends into helping him figure out just what's going on.
Notes: "Published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. by arrangement with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC"--Title page verso.