{"publishers": ["Henry Holt"], "identifiers": {"librarything": ["27521"], "goodreads": ["415997"]}, "subtitle": "a novel", "subject_place": ["Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)", "Baltimore (Md.)"], "pagination": "181 p. ;", "covers": [579993], "local_id": ["urn:sfpl:31223080548739", "urn:sfpl:31223080548408"], "lc_classifications": ["PS3551.U77 T56 1999", "PS3551.U77T56 1999"], "key": "/books/OL384199M", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL190100A"}], "publish_places": ["New York"], "subjects": ["High school teachers -- Fiction.", "Homeless persons -- Fiction.", "Dog owners -- Fiction.", "Poets -- Fiction.", "Dogs -- Fiction.", "Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.", "Baltimore (Md.) -- Fiction."], "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "genres": ["Fiction."], "source_records": ["marc:marc_openlibraries_sanfranciscopubliclibrary/sfpl_chq_2018_12_24_run02.mrc:178610222:1617", "marc:marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part27.utf8:37819552:1061", "ia:timbuktunovel0000aust", "ia:timbuktunovel0000aust_o3v2", "bwb:9780805054071", "marc:marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-005.mrc:387104415:1686"], "title": "Timbuktu", "dewey_decimal_class": ["813/.54"], "number_of_pages": 181, "edition_name": "1st ed.", "lccn": ["98046742"], "isbn_10": ["0805054073"], "publish_date": "1999", "publish_country": "nyu", "by_statement": "Paul Auster.", "works": [{"key": "/works/OL1682236W"}], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "ocaid": "timbuktunovel0000aust", "oclc_numbers": ["40061362"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Mr. Bones, the canine hero of Paul Auster's new book, is the sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, the brilliant, troubled, and altogether original poet-saint from Brooklyn. Like Don Quixote and Sancho Panza before them, they sally forth on a last great adventure, heading for Baltimore, Maryland, in search of Bea Swanson, Willy's high school English teacher.\n\nYears have passed since Willy last saw his beloved mentor, who knew him in his previous incarnation as William Gurevitch, the son of Polish war refugees. Is Mrs. Swanson still alive? And if she isn't, what will prevent Willy from vanishing into that other world known as Timbuktu?"}, "latest_revision": 11, "revision": 11, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-07-16T10:11:43.836539"}}