Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (937 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01EL38QUW |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The Paris landmark is a literary salon and an unconventional hotel where guests, called Tumbleweeds, help run the shop. Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart, a glorious volume thick with old photographs, newspaper clippings, and reminiscences. (Another Magazine) . (Erica Wagner Harper's Bazaar)This profusely illustrated 65th-anniversary tribute to Shakespeare and Company, the renowned Left Bank bookstore and mecca for 20th-century literati, is delectable eye candy for lovers of books and reading. (James McAuley Washington Post)Drawing on never-before-seen archives, it's the first book to share the full story of the legendary shop founded by Whitman's late father, George, an American expat, in 1951. (Kate Layte Lit Hub)Now, much to the delight of its many customers and occasional tenants, the shop’s history has been compiled into a book all of it
She has won numerous awards and is published around the world. Krista Halverson is the director of Shakespeare and Company bookstore’s publishing venture. In 1992 she was one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. Previously, she was the managing editor of Zoetrope: All-Story, the art and literary quarterly published by Francis Ford Coppola, which has won several National Magazine Awards for Fiction and numerous design prizes.
Visitors are invited not only to read the books in the library and to share a pot of tea, but sometimes also to live in the bookstore itself--all for free.More than 30,000 people have stayed at Shakespeare and Company, fulfilling Whitman’s vision of a “socialist utopia masquerading as a bookstore.” Through the prism of the shop’s history, the book traces the lives of literary expats in Paris from 1951 to the present, touching on the Beat Generation, civil rights, May ’68 and the feminist movement--all while pondering that perennial literary question, “What is it about write
George C. said This is a wonderful book. The book takes you through a literary. This is a wonderful book. The book takes you through a literary and personal journey. Shakespeare and Company is an English bookstore in the heart of Paris, a wonderful and special institution. I enjoyed this ride. The main narrative is lively but the side trips are extra special and add greatly to the overall feel of the book as a history of the store, its owners. It's a scrapbook and the shop is seen through the eyes of others kitty kat A scrapbook about George Whitman and Shakespeare and Company. Great layout and nicely made book. Lots of bits and pieces of memories, bios from the Tumbleweeds, art, photographs, etc., everything you would expect to find in a scrapbook. Some pages about Sylvia Beach, who was the original founder and owner of Shakespeare and Company. She was a true hero. The only t. Prepare to skip a couple meals Mark C. Hiser I am a lover of books. In fact, as Thomas Jefferson wrote, "I cannot live without books."This wonderfully written history of one of the world's great bookshops is impossible to put down. I smiled from start to finish and even passed up a couple meal times just so I could continue reading. Not only does the book capture the romance of the bookstore, it makes me wan