Not surprisingly, he doesn’t get a lot of customers and has few friends, and in the space of the first few chapters, his most valuable possession, a first edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s “ Tamerlane,” is stolen. I am repulsed by ghostwritten novels by reality television stars, celebrity picture books, sports memoirs, movie tie-in editions, novelty items, and - I imagine this goes without saying - vampires.” I do not like anything over four hundred pages or under one hundred fifty pages. I do not like children’s books, especially ones with orphans, and I prefer not to clutter my shelves with young adult. Literary should be literary, and genre should be genre, and crossbreeding rarely results in anything satisfying. I do not like genre mash-ups à la the literary detective novel or the literary fantasy. I rarely respond to supposedly clever formal devices, multiple fonts, pictures where they shouldn’t be - basically gimmicks of any kind. . . “I do not like postmodernism, postapocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators, or magic realism. He doesn’t just stock any old book in Island Books, where “No Man Is an Island Every Book Is a World.” Only those titles that satisfy his old-fashioned tastes are allowed in: Depressed for the past two years following the death of his wife, Fikry is lonesome, angry and a bit of a literary snob. Fikry” is about a middle-aged man who owns a failing independent bookstore on Alice Island off the coast of Massachusetts.
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