Miserable Love Stories by Alex Bernstein

Author:Alex Bernstein
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781631585845
Publisher: Racehorse
Published: 2020-01-21T16:00:00+00:00

It was located on a quiet, non-descript side-street at the edge of town, less than a block from the railroad station. Sandwiched between Joe’s Meat Market—a shoebox of a deli with inch-thick dust on everything, including Joe—and an abandoned tchotchke store, it was dismal but quaint. To find yourself at this bookshop, you had to be either incredibly lost or a close, personal friend of my mother’s. All of her customers were both.

Besides the location, sales were perpetually awful because of the poor selection—and sheer lack—of books. If you were looking, for example, for the complete works (or any works for that matter) of Dickens, Hemingway or Mailer, you weren’t likely to find them here. Nor were you likely to find histories of Rome, self-help books, reference books, Isaac Asimov, or much Dr. Seuss. Of current novels and non-fiction Mom would get only a few copies as she just wasn’t inclined to maintain “popular” books and didn’t feel it necessary to pander to some “mass” audience. If you really needed that stuff, she could special order it. (Anything in print in six to eight weeks!) No, she had no interest in being just another big bookstore.

Mom’s forte was Art Books. Big, out-of-print, sixty-dollar, coffee table Art Books. Beautifully bound, exquisitely printed, covering classic and contemporary; local shows and exhibits from around the world. Lavish, gorgeous books that no one wanted, and no one could afford. She loved them. Yes, her cooking, poetry and crossword book sections weren’t bad. And her bookmark and bookplate sections ran two aisles wide and were possibly the best in the country. But all were window dressing for her Art Books.

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