Few bookstores in Poland carried "Amok," in part because of the novel's shocking content, and those which did placed it on the highest shelves, out of the reach of children.
Behind a satin veil it lived, on the highest shelf of our bookcase, tended to assiduously by my grandmother and her duster; it lay covered underneath a pink, embroidered handkerchief and was hardly ever exposed to open air because the ringer had been turned off.
The ensenble-the groundswell under the grass plot lifting the feet from the cement so that the feet's owners could place Isolator on the highest shelf of the Smithsonian-made us happy and may keep us so all fall, eve if the Herald Tribune never equals it.
Around him on all sides were ceiling-high shelves of CD's and books.
With horizontal space at a minimum in the dining room, the tall vertical proportions are put to charming use with high shelves of odd pictures, old signs and a suggestion box out of reach.
The restaurant looks like France or at least like every American's mental picture of France, with its pressed-tin ceiling, a touch of tile, traditional French posters, high shelves of wine, oversized mirrors, paper-covered bare tables and a bright, red-domed rear dining room.
Downstairs, there's a more organised and pricier selection plus a vinyl record store, a coffee bar, event space and puffy sofas to sit on, but upstairs is also home to a crochet store, art installations and endless winding corridors and corners that are filled with ceiling-high shelves of books.
If I can, however, speak about my sources, it's all this that you can see here" -- he gestured around the high shelves on both long sides of his studio, stacked with books, scores and recordings -- "without being afraid of producing something that will not be accepted by modern academicism, including the academicism of the avant-garde.
"Fun Home" belongs on that same small, high shelf of comic books where "Maus" dwells.
Last year our reviewer, Tom LeClair, called this novel "a major laughing matter" that "deserves space on the short, high shelf of literary wonders".
