"Swanson masterfully crafts both Kitty's and Katharyn's worlds, leaving open the question of which of them is real until the final pages. Swanson's evocative novel freshly considers the timeless question, 'What if?' "--Publishers Weekly 1962: It may be the Swinging Sixties in New York, but in Denve
The Paris Bookseller
β Scribed by Kerri Maher
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2022
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 212 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0593546415
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β¦ Synopsis
****One of SheReads ' Best Literary Historical Fiction Coming in 2022 **
One of Reader 's Digest's __ Best Books for Women Written by Female Authors **
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_The dramatic story of how a humble bookseller fought against incredible odds to bring one of the most important books of the 20th century to the world in this new novel from the author of The Girl in White Gloves.
When bookish young American Sylvia Beach opens Shakespeare and Company on a quiet street in Paris in 1919, she has no idea that she and her new bookstore will change the course of literature itself.
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...
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