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The Paris Bookseller: A sweeping story of love, friendship and betrayal in bohemian 1920s Paris

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Add to that a pretty accurate account of an amazing American woman’s life. Sylvia Beach finds a place for herself that wasn’t possible in 1920’s America. It’s about these writers, James Joyce in particular, as Sylvia Beach brilliantly and courageously takes on the challenges of publishing Ulysses when the obstacles in America were impossible at first to overcome. There are many layers here, but center of the story is the remarkable Sylvia Beach. In some ways, Cyprian was the reason they were in Paris at all, so Sylvia supposed she ought to be grateful. Her sister had a recurring part in a popular weekly film called Judex, which was so well known that the two of them were regularly stopped in the street and asked for autographs; occasionally, someone would even ask Sylvia for her signature, assuming she was some sort of up-and-comer hanging around with the glittering, gorgeous star. Sylvia would sigh and reflect that it had always been this way between her and her younger sister. Even at thirty years old, Sylvia was still riled that Cyprian could rely on her arresting looks to get attention, while she toiled in libraries and at desks, hoping her words and ideas might be discovered someday.

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Another thought: a current interpretation of Persuasion by Jane Austen, in a recent Netflix movie, rendered the original intent almost unrecognizable. Austen was hunched over her small writing desk in the village of Chawton during England’s Georgian era as she wrote Persuasion. The viewer, however, most likely will be lying in bed, watching the Netflix movie, interpreted by a totally different writer in another totally contextual era. Shakespeare and Company is more than a bookstore and lending library: Many of the prominent writers of the Lost Generation, like Ernest Hemingway, consider it a second home. It's where some of the most important literary friendships of the twentieth century are forged--none more so than the one between Irish writer James Joyce and Sylvia herself. When Joyce's controversial novel Ulysses is banned, Beach takes a massive risk and publishes it under the auspices of Shakespeare and Company. A mi me interesó la historia porque hablaba de cómo se fundó la mítica librería parisina Shakespeare and Company, la cual he visto que es un lugar con mucho atractivo turístico. Lo que no sabía era de la mujer detrás de este local, Sylvia Beach. Ella fue una estadounidense que al llegar a vivir a París se deslumbró con una librería llamada “La Maison des Amis des Livres” fundada por Adrienne Monnier. Sylvia estaba encantada con la vida literaria de este lugar y soñaba con abrir una franquicia de la librería francesa en su país; pero por cuestiones económicas terminó abriendo su local también en París, pero para especializarse en vender libros escritos por estadounidenses y se concentró también en buscar autores que estuvieran promoviendo una literatura más moderna y compleja. A story about Paris and bookshops was bound to find a place in my heart but this one has the pièce de résistance: the character of Sylvia Beach. I was completely enthralled by Beach’s life and her tenacity in founding the first English-language bookshop in Paris, while also publishing James Joyce’s epic but controversial Ulysses. With an abundance of delightful cameos from all of your favorite literary heroes as well as a fascinating rendering of Paris’s glory days during the 1920s and 30s, this novel will transport you as only the best historical fiction can.”Maher fills her story with quite a few of the “names” of the day - Gertrude Stein, Hemingway, Ezra Pound and especially Joyce. She captures the personalities and makes it easy to see these great names as real people. A beautiful ode to Sylvia Beach, the renowned Shakespeare and Company owner, a real-life heroine who has left her mark on us all.” This right here is what I love about historical books. I learn so much from them that I would have otherwise never known, Lulls you into an interwar Parisian dream where love – be it romantic, friendly or even for a book – can be found on a quirky little street in the 6th”

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I think this book would appeal to people who enjoy historical fiction and literature lovers. I will watch for more Kerri Maher books in the future.Joyce, like many artists, is temperamental, demanding and horrible with finances. Sylvia puts up with him, at a cost to her own health and purse. In the end, he uses her badly, forgetting that without her, the book would never have been published.

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