Although Muir attempted to pass this off as a genuine diary, it quickly becomes obvious from reading it that this is a work of fiction, and Baxter — charming, knowledgeable, frustrated, and vaguely incompetent — is Muir’s parody of the booksellers he encountered in Edinburgh at the time in which he wrote it.
This is one of my favorite books of the year so far.
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