The Librarian's Apprentice

By Steven Holland

"Dewey was wrong."Former English major "Curtis" (as he calls himself on his blog), 35 and ambitionless, accepts the opportunity to become apprentice to the great librarian Walter J. Phillips. The highly opinionated librarian proves to be at least as eccentric as he is brilliant, and when Mr. Phillips gives him the task of helping him develop the perfect library classification system, Curtis wonders whether he has gotten in over his head. However, he soon finds himself obsessed with the staggering challenge and bewildering complexity of classifying everything that exists.Meanwhile, Curtis discovers the fiction of avant-garde novelist Ivan Large. At first finding his bizarre writing to be incomprehensible, Curtis comes to realize that the seeming nonsense of Ivan Large's books might just hold the key to the elegantly simple solution he's been looking for.The Librarian's Apprentice is itself difficult to classify: a brief, breezy tale that incorporates metaphysical speculation and experimental literature; a light comedy that finds humor in a subject as seemingly dry and dusty as library classification systems.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1521784108
• ISBN13: 9781521784105
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"