A review by kathycz
Shakespeare and Company by James Laughlin, Sylvia Beach

4.0

I'm fascinated by Sylvia Beach after reading this little memoir. It's not very organized, and there's clearly a lot more to the story of Paris's famous English language bookstore, Shakespeare & Company, which Beach, an American expat, ran from 1919 until the Nazis shut it down in 1941. The fact that Beach spent 6 months in an internment camp, for example, is breezed over as quickly as that. Next stop: Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation by Noel Riley Fitch.