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Scott Douglas must have had a mighty pile of preconceptions to shift in convincing publishers that his memoirs, about being a public librarian in the Californian city of Anaheim, were worth a second glance. Thank goodness that he managed. Quiet, Please may be unassuming and almost pathologically self-deprecating on the surface, but it has a core of genuine humanity, comedy and warmth that is so often lacking from more outwardly glitzy autobiographies... There is a rich vein of humour in the book, at times wry and at others boisterous, like a Douglas Coupland slacker hero relocated from the world of e-commerce. --Scotland on Sunday
These are not the shiny, happy Californians who people our cinema screens and magazines, but they are funny, illuminating and give Douglas s recollections a rawness with which the airbrushed memories of society s winners cannot compete. --The Times
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Set against the unlikely backdrop of a Californian public library, Quiet, Please is an unexpectedly raucous and illuminating memoir. For most of us, librarians are the quiet people behind the desk who, apart from the occasional 'shush', vanish into the background. But in Quiet, Please, Scott Douglas, a contributor to Dave Eggers' literary magazine McSweeney's, puts the quirky caretakers of our literature front and centre. With a keen eye for the absurd and a Kesey-esque cast of characters, Douglas takes us where few readers have gone before. Punctuated by his own highly subjective research into library history, from Andrew Carnegie's gilded age to today's Afghanistan Douglas gives us a surprising and sometimes hilarious look at the lives which make up the social institution that is his library.
Scott Douglas must have had a mighty pile of preconceptions to shift in convincing publishers that his memoirs, about being a public librarian in the Californian city of Anaheim, were worth a second glance. Thank goodness that he managed. Quiet, Please may be unassuming and almost pathologically self-deprecating on the surface, but it has a core of genuine humanity, comedy and warmth that is so often lacking from more outwardly glitzy autobiographies... There is a rich vein of humour in the book, at times wry and at others boisterous, like a Douglas Coupland slacker hero relocated from the world of e-commerce. --Scotland on Sunday
These are not the shiny, happy Californians who people our cinema screens and magazines, but they are funny, illuminating and give Douglas s recollections a rawness with which the airbrushed memories of society s winners cannot compete. --The Times
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Set against the unlikely backdrop of a Californian public library, Quiet, Please is an unexpectedly raucous and illuminating memoir. For most of us, librarians are the quiet people behind the desk who, apart from the occasional 'shush', vanish into the background. But in Quiet, Please, Scott Douglas, a contributor to Dave Eggers' literary magazine McSweeney's, puts the quirky caretakers of our literature front and centre. With a keen eye for the absurd and a Kesey-esque cast of characters, Douglas takes us where few readers have gone before. Punctuated by his own highly subjective research into library history, from Andrew Carnegie's gilded age to today's Afghanistan Douglas gives us a surprising and sometimes hilarious look at the lives which make up the social institution that is his library.
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