Books Details
Author : Susan Orlean Pages : 310 pages Publisher : Simon &Schuster Language :
eng ISBN-10 : 1476740194 ISBN-13 : 9781476740195
Books Descriptions
On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public
Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out
of the building realized this was not the usual fire alarm. As one fireman
recounted, ?Once that first stack got going, it was ?Goodbye, Charlie.?? The fire
was disastrous: it reached 2000 degrees and burned for more than seven hours.
By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books
and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the
scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone
purposefully set fire to the library?and if so, who? Weaving her lifelong love of
books and reading into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker
reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a
mesmerizing and uniquely compelling book that manages to tell the broader
story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done
