Bob the book / David Pratt.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Chelsea Station Editions, 2010.Edition: 1st U.S. edDescription: 184 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780984470716
  • 0984470719
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.6 22
LOC classification:
  • PS3616.R3833 B63 2010
Awards:
  • Lambda Literary Award, 2011: Gay Debut Fiction.
Summary: Meet "Bob the Book," a gay book for sale in a Greenwich Village bookstore, where he falls in love with another book, Moishe. But a freak accident separates the young lovers. As Bob wends his way through used book bins, paper bags, knapsacks, and lecture halls, hoping to be reunited with Moishe, he meets a variety of characters, both book and human, including Angela, a widowed copy of Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park" and two other separated lovers, Neil and Jerry, near victims of a book burning. Among their owners and readers are Alfred and Duane, whose on-again, off-again relationship unites and separates our book friends. Will Bob find Moishe? Will Jerry and Neil be reunited? Will Alfred and Duane make it work?
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Meet "Bob the Book," a gay book for sale in a Greenwich Village bookstore, where he falls in love with another book, Moishe. But a freak accident separates the young lovers. As Bob wends his way through used book bins, paper bags, knapsacks, and lecture halls, hoping to be reunited with Moishe, he meets a variety of characters, both book and human, including Angela, a widowed copy of Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park" and two other separated lovers, Neil and Jerry, near victims of a book burning. Among their owners and readers are Alfred and Duane, whose on-again, off-again relationship unites and separates our book friends. Will Bob find Moishe? Will Jerry and Neil be reunited? Will Alfred and Duane make it work?

Lambda Literary Award, 2011: Gay Debut Fiction.

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