Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.

Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.Wandering through Paris's Left Bank one day, poor and unemployed, Canadian reporter Jeremy Mercer ducked into a little bookstore called Shakespeare & Co. Mercer bought a book, and the staff invited him up for tea. Within weeks, he was living above the store, working for the proprietor, George Whitman, patron saint of the city's down and out writers, and immersing himself in the love affairs and low down watering holes of the shop's makeshift staff.

Wandering through Paris's Left Bank one day, poor and unemployed, Canadian reporter Jeremy Mercer ducked into a little bookstore called Shakespeare & Co. Mercer bought a book, and the staff invited him up for tea. Within weeks, he was living above the store, working for the proprietor, George Whitman, patron saint of the city's down-and-out writers, and immersing himself in the love affairs and low-down watering holes of the shop's makeshift staff. Time Was Soft There is the story of a journey down a literary rabbit hole in the shadow of Notre Dame, to a place where a hidden bohemia still thrives.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 09/19/2006
ISBN: 9780312347406
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.80d