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Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books

by Paul Collins · 2003

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Paul Collins and his family abandoned the hills of San Francisco to move to the Welsh countryside-to move, in fact, to the village of Hay-on-Wye, the "Town of Books" that boasts fifteen hundred inhabitants-and forty bookstores. Taking readers into a secluded sanctuary for book lovers, and guiding us through the creation of the author's own first book, Sixpence Housebecomes a heartfelt and often hilarious meditation on what books mean to us.

Subject
travelbiographyhistorymemoir
Genre
humor
Themes
writers
Setting
2000sWalesEnglandBritishUSA
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 224 pages
Form
essays

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