![]() ![]() ![]() The book, which was valued at $400,000, is not recovered, and Fikry realizes he won't be retiring anytime soon. The chief of police, Chief Lambiase, a kindly man, gets involved when Fikry reports the robbery. Then, his prized possession and primary retirement asset, "Tamerlane," a rare collection of poetry by Edgar Allen Poe, is stolen. Fikry is struggling his wife has died, book sales have declined and he really doesn't have a social life. The novel begins with an encounter between Fikry and Amelia, a publisher sales rep, which goes poorly, due to Fikry's churlish behavior. In the end, we are collected works." The back cover features the adage "No Man Is an Island: Every Book Is a World" which is part of the sign that hangs above the porch of Island Books, a small bookstore in the fictional resort village of Alice Island, off the coast of Massachusetts and owned by the cantankerous A.J. The inside flap states "We are not quite novels. The novel's jacket cover contains two ponderous quotations about books, to give readers a little foretelling of the nature of the narrative. ![]() Fikry" by Gabrielle Zevin is a charming salute to books, bookstores and book lovers. ![]() Fikry" by Gabrielle Zevin April 2014 Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 260 pp. Book Review by Ann Jonas, Tradebook Buyer - CSB/SJU Bookstores ![]()
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