The library book
Orlean, Susan
The library book / Susan Orlean - New York : Simon & Schuster , 2018 - 315 p. : illus. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
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, Susan Orlean delivers a book that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before.
English
9781476740195
Libraries
Los Angeles Public Library---History---20th century
Arson---History---California---Los Angeles---20th century
027.4794 ORL
The library book / Susan Orlean - New York : Simon & Schuster , 2018 - 315 p. : illus. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
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, Susan Orlean delivers a book that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before.
English
9781476740195
Libraries
Los Angeles Public Library---History---20th century
Arson---History---California---Los Angeles---20th century
027.4794 ORL
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