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

Kerri Maher

The Paris Bookseller: A sweeping story of love, friendship and betrayal in bohemian 1920s Paris
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Country
United Kingdom
Published
14 March 2023
Pages
336
ISBN
9781472290786

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

Kerri Maher

PARIS, 1919.

Young, bookish Sylvia Beach knows there is no greater city in the world than Paris. But when she opens an English-language bookshop on the bohemian Left Bank, Sylvia can’t yet know she is making history.

Many leading writers of the day, from Ernest Hemingway to Gertrude Stein, consider Shakespeare and Company a second home. Here some of the most profound literary friendships blossom - and none more so than between James Joyce and Sylvia herself.

When Joyce’s controversial novel Ulysses is banned, Sylvia determines to publish it through Shakespeare and Company. But the success and notoriety of publishing the most infamous book of the century comes at deep personal cost as Sylvia risks ruin, reputation and her heart in the name of the life-changing power of books.

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