Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs
Enchanting memoir of a struggling writer and an eccentric Paris bookshop
$39.40
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
12 October 2006
Summary
‘Shakespeare and Company’ in Paris is one of the world’s most famous bookshops. The original store opened in 1921 and became known as the haunt of literary greats, such as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and James Joyce. Sadly the shop was forced to close in 1941 when the owner, Sylvia Beach, refused to sell the last copy of Finnegan’s Wake to an occupying Nazi officer. But this was not the end of ‘Shakespeare and Company’ …
…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753820582 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0753820587 |
| Author: | Jeremy Mercer |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 12 October 2006 |
| Weight: | 254g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 141mm x 21mm |
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Critics Review
Completely riveting… [a] vivid picture of modern Paris, a city of tourism and immigration with a very hard edge to it. Mercer is particularly good on his fellow lodgers above the shop… Watching them interact is like viewing a thinking person’s BIG BROTHER - OBSERVER (20/8/06)
An extraordinary memoir… Recommended. - HAM & HIGH (1/9/06)About The Author
Jeremy Mercer
Jeremy Mercer is a Canadian ex-journalist who lives in Marseilles, France.
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