Night Games

Cabanis, José

Palo Verde Press

Review\n"This intimate and moving short story collection offers quick glimpses into the lives of several characters, mostly older men who are attempting to reconcile the growing incongruity between their desires and their reality. The gripping title story—more of a novella—draws on Briscoe's 30 years of experience as a university librarian to explore what will become of the world's libraries as we hurtle towards an increasingly digital future. The additional stories rounding out the collection are much shorter than his title work, but still insightful—similar to meditative vignettes. Great for fans of Haruki Murakami's Men Without Women."—Publishers Weekly BookLife Reviews\nSECOND ENLARGED EDITION. Five stories about professors, students, librarians, booksellers, and early scientific explorers-all living literately, on journeys of the mind. The first story, "One of Our Stars," is about a professor so engrossed in difficult studies that even a blatant sexual invitation (accepted) merely distracts him. He concentrates with the mental force of a chess grandmaster, a zen roshi, or a musical virtuoso. The next story about a female college student is set in a Colombian jungle. The third story portrays a once formidable professor coming to terms with retirement, old age, and approaching death. The fourth (title) story, novella length, takes place in an Ecuadorian library that is experiencing rampant theft. A place where some men steal books while others wonder why they bother. A literary, intellectual mystery that explores the library as a profound idea while the world rushes into a digital, post-literate future. The fifth story explores the evolving status of a beautiful young female scholar who each year attends a Latin American Librarians Conference.\nFrom the Author\nPeter Briscoe for more than 30 years built library collections at two universities. A specialist in collection development, book acquisitions, special collections, and preservation, he directed efforts that led to the purchase or donation of 1.5 million volumes from all over the world on nearly all subjects. He is Associate University Librarian Emeritus at the University of California, Riverside, and the author or co-author of five books.

The Bookseller: Stories

Literature & Fiction

Briscoe, Peter

World Literature

SOME MEN STEAL BOOKS WHILE OTHERS WONDER WHY THEY BOTHER. A theft of rare books in a distant Ecuadorian library cannot be solved without uncovering the motives of the perpetrators. Some steal to eat, others, oddly, to save the past, vanishing as the world rushes into a digital, post-literate future. Four intriguing stories of men and women living literately, on journeys of the mind.

Peter Briscoe

United States

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