The Secret Of Lost Things

Author: Sheridan Hay

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  • : $37.00 NZD
  • : 9780007251582
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  • : March 2007
  • : United Kingdom
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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.
There's Pearl, the loving, motherly transsexual who runs the cash register;
Oscar, who shares his extensive, eclectic knowledge with Rosemary, but furiously rejects her attempts at a more personal relationship;
and Arthur Pick, who supervises the art section and demonstrates a particular interest in photography books featuring naked men.
The store manager Walter Geist is an albino, a lonely figure even within the world of the Arcade.
When Walter's eyesight begins to fail, Rosemary becomes his assistant. And so it is Rosemary who first reads the letter from someone seeking to 'place' a lost manuscript by Herman Melville...

Author description

Sheridan Hay was born in Tasmania. She worked in bookstores and in publishing for many years, and holds an MFA in writing and literature from Bennington. She has published short stories and teaches writing in the graduate program at Parson's School of Design, at The New School. This is her first novel.