Wendy Welch and her husband had always dreamed of owning a bookstore. When the opportunity to escape a toxic work environment and run to a struggling Virginia coal mining town presented itself, they took it. And took the plunge into starting their dream as well. They chose to ignore the "death of the book," the closing of bookstores across the nation, and the difficult economic environment, and six years later they have carved a bookstore - and a life - out of an Appalachian mountain community. A story of beating bad odds ...
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Wendy Welch and her husband had always dreamed of owning a bookstore. When the opportunity to escape a toxic work environment and run to a struggling Virginia coal mining town presented itself, they took it. And took the plunge into starting their dream as well. They chose to ignore the "death of the book," the closing of bookstores across the nation, and the difficult economic environment, and six years later they have carved a bookstore - and a life - out of an Appalachian mountain community. A story of beating bad odds with grace, ingenuity, good books, and single malt, this memoir chronicles two bibliophiles discovering unlikely ways in which daily living and literature intertwine. Their customers - "Bob the Mad Irishman," "Wee Willie," and "The Lady Who Liked Romances," to name a few - come to the shop looking for the kind of interactive wisdom kindles don't spark, and they find friendship, community, and the uncommon pleasure of a good book in good company. "The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap" will make you want to run to the local bookstore, and curl up in an armchair with a treasure in bound pages.
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SIGNED on title p. by author. 291pp. hardback 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [text is lightly age browned; else a nice crisp copy] A bookstore memoir praised by Andre Dubus III among others.
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