From his childhood in rural Ontario to his all-but-accidental entrance into the antiquarian book trade in London and the career it turned into, poet and travel writer Marius Kociejowski recounts his life among the buyers, sellers, customers, and literary nobility
A floating world --The road I'd later take --A giraffe in Edinburgh zoo --The pope of long acre --A paragon of seedy exactitude --Hawks and magpies --The loneliness of the collector --The testament of Charlotte B. --The disembowelling of phantoms --Black mischief and subterfuge …
"A memoir of a life in the antiquarian book trade, A Factotum in the Book Trade is a journey between the shelves--and then behind the counter, into the overstuffed basement, and up the spine-stacked attic stairs of your favourite neighbourhood bookshop. From his childhood in rur…
Essays and anecdotes from travel-writer, poet, and bookseller Marius Kociejowski, including pieces on encounters with Bruce Chatwin and Javier Marías.
"Kociejowski draws on all the aspects of his life in these engaging, idiosyncratic personal essays ... [that] proffer the reader equal measures of autobiography, insight and quirky charm."--Michael Dirda, The Washington Post In the game of bocce, no matter how intensely you stud…
""Zoroaster's Children" brings together the best of Marius Kociejowski's travel writing"--