[lit-ideas] The Swimming Pool Library
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 13:18:10 EDT
E. Holder asks:
>> I'm sorry, David, but can you please explain the concept of a library
>> bookstore? It's a library, but it's a store? How can it be a store?
D. Ritchie replies:
>Well it's a bit like Harrods really, only without the smocked terrorist
>sales ladies, armed with perfume bottles, oh and the zoo.
--- Reminds me of "The Swimming Pool Library" -- title of novel by Alan
Hollinghurst. As the main character's father asks, "I wonder what books you
keep
in that library".
"Harrods" in Buenos Aires once had a popular lending library --. Wonder what
floor Harrods-in-London's library is?
Has anyone seen "Calendar Girls", with Helen Mirren and Julie Walters. Great
film. Set in Knapely /kneipli/, Yorkshire. It features a nice kind of
provincial Yorkshire library on wheels -- which would park in the moors for a
day
or so I suppose.
Cheers,
JL
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