Steinbeck's Ghost - Softcover

Buzbee, Lewis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312602111 ISBN 13: 9780312602116

Publisher: Square Fish, 2010

Synopsis

It's been two months since Travis's family moved from their shabby old house to a development so new that it seems totally unreal. There's one place, though, where Travis can still connect with his old life: the Salinas library. Travis and his family used to go there together every Saturday, but now he bikes to it alone, re-reading his favorite books: the works of John Steinbeck. Suddenly Travis is seeing Steinbeck's characters come to life. There's the homeless man in the alley behind the library, the boy who writes by night in an attic bedroom. Travis has met them before―as a reader. But how can they be here now? And why?

About this title

About the Author:

LEWIS BUZBEE is a former bookseller and sales rep, and the author of the acclaimed adult memoir, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, published by Graywolf Press in June 2006. His next book, The Haunting of Charles Dickens, will be available from Feiwel and Friends in Fall 2010. A native Californian, Lewis lives in San Francisco with his wife and daughter.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

Travis looked at the stack of books on his desk. These were his new life, his real life. A Wrinkle in Time led him to the library. Which led him to Corral de Tierra, which led him to The Pastures of Heaven, which led him to The Long Valley. And these books led him to the other mysteries that surrounded him--Gitano and the Watchers and Steinbeck's ghost--led him deeper into a world he never suspected.        Books could do that to you. When you read, the world really did change. He understood this now. You saw parts of the world you never knew existed. Books were in the world; the world was in books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Square Fish
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0312602111
• ISBN 13: 9780312602116
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368