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Losing Moby Dick

Author Ian Gouge
Publisher Ian Gouge
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Author(s)Ian Gouge
PublisherIan Gouge
ISBN / ASINB019UCLOEY
ISBN-13978B019UCLOE0
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷

Description

Books are, for many people, precious things. They become host not only to the words within them, but to individual history and memory, thoughts and feelings. So when Jack finds he has lost his old copy of “Moby Dick” he is suddenly knocked off-balance. He knows that it should not really matter that much - but it had ‘associations’…

So Jack determines to replace it - and not with a pristine copy, but if he can, with an old second-hand volume from the very bookshop at which he acquired his original.

A simple enough proposition you might think. But then Jack discovers that in the intervening years many things have changed, and Twerton’s bookshop is not what it was. It is much, much different…

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