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In an overly enthusiastic gesture, Sylvia thrust out her hand, which Suzanne appeared amused to shake. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Mademoiselle Beach." You know they exist, sister darling. They’re the ones sending you Veuve and Pernod at the Ritz.” And anyway, you only want the male attention for the status of it. Cyprian was more willing to attach herself to a man than Sylvia, who’d entirely sworn off the idea of marriage, even a marriage of convenience that could provide her with a livelihood and some camouflage. Joining her identity with that of a man, even one who preferred sharing his bed with another man, was simply not appealing. For joining, she’d noticed, almost always meant subsuming. And even though Sylvia was one of very few people on earth who knew her sister preferred the affections of women, Cyprian liked to act parts that flattered her, and helped her afford Chanel dresses and Italian shoes, indulging a taste for finer things she’d inherited from their mother. A book for the bookshop lovers . . . an absorbing novel about the life changing nature of our favourite reads”
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More than just a bookstore, it had a lending library and many famous authors came there to unwind and write including Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce. Now Joyce had a book that was banned everywhere else and Sylvia Beach helped him with the publication of it. This book was Ulysses. In The Girl in White Gloves, Kerri Maher beautifully envisions the reality of this fairy-tale life. This deeply researched novel is perfect for fans of Grace Kelly, royal-watchers, and fans of biographical fiction alike.”Shakespeare and Company is more than a bookstore and lending library: Many of the most 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. That he is a very great writer but not a great man.” Was that what she’d (Adrienne) said? When they first talked about her publishing Ulysses? … “But he is such a genius.” “Geniuses are not always good husbands.” El libro comienza con una joven Sylvia que sueña con convertirse en escritora pero al llegar a París conocerá a Adrienne y a su famosa librería que la dejará fascinada. La novela abordará cómo estas mujeres lograron convertirse en el centro de intercambio literario más importante de la ciudad, como Sylvia se convertirá en la editora de una de las novelas más importantes del siglo pasado, las desavenencias que pasaron durante la guerra, así como la libertad sexual que vivieron estas mujeres en París. Además se harán muchas referencias a otros escritores muy importantes de la época y que estuvieron involucrados en la vida de la librería, las batallas legales detrás de la publicación de Ulysses y los muchos problemas que Sylvia tuvo que enfrentar para sacar adelante la escritura de James Joyce y ni hablar de todo el trabajo y financiación que Sylvia tuvo que invertir para lograr publicar Ulysses. It was a really beautiful romance between Sylvia and Adrienne Monier (another ground-breaking single female bookshop owner, this time French), who were drawn to each other through their love for books and literature, and their beliefs that women capable of so much more than the traditional roles of wife, mother, servant …They both believed that people should be free to love whom they choose, and write what and how they will. Censorship was rife in the USA at the time (hence the banning of ‘Ulysses’), prohibition was in full swing, and homosexuality illegal, whereas France was much more liberal on all counts. So, no wonder Sylvia – and many fellow Americans – were drawn to an exuberant Paris that sparkled with culture old and new. That Paris was also inexpensive at the time, added to the appeal.
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Suzanne," said Adrienne, "Please meet our new friend Sylvia Beach, of the United States. Sylvia, this is Suzanne Bonnierre, my business partner." I loved this history of all the writers who congregated in Paris from 1917-1935 and the bookstore which was their haven. I had never heard of Sylvia Beach or her bookstore Shakespeare and Company. It was so interesting to "meet" James Joyce and and his struggles to write and publish Ulysses, the young Ernest Hemmingway, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas to name a few.A beautiful ode to Sylvia Beach, the renowned Shakespeare and Company owner, a real-life heroine who has left her mark on us all.”
The Paris Bookseller | Kerri Maher
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. I knew nothing about Sylvia until I read this book. She met James Joyce in 1920, and offered to publish his controversial and banned masterpiece, Ulysses. Sylvia struggled financially thanks to Joyce and his willingness to drain her dry with his demands for Sylvia's time and more money and eventually abandoning all that Sylvia did for him, when he signed on with another publisher. But it's very clear that Sylvia still thought that her sacrifices were worth it, that she thought her reputation and the success of Shakespeare and Company owed much to the work of James Joyce. A] fascinating, deeply researched novel of the extraordinary Grace Kelly...establishes Maher as a true force in biographical fiction.” Maher ( The Girl in White Gloves) offers an alluring look at the history of Paris's Shakespeare and Company bookstore." - Publishers WeeklyThe Lodge by Sue Watson, psychological thriller set in snow-blown Cornwall (Kynance Cove). #Audiobook Why do it, Fiona? Why...
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If you ever dreamed you could transport yourself to Paris in the twenties, to Sylvia Beach’s famous bookstore where Joyce, Hemingway, and Pound wandered the aisles, this story’s for you. Maher’s magical touch brings to life a woman whose struggles resonate in today’s world, while also examining the intricacies of friendship, fortitude, and the love of the written word.” Could she ever write so bravely, knowing her minister father, whom she loved dearly, would read every word? It was one thing for him to quietly accept her spinsterhood, and perhaps even her discreet sapphism—for he'd never encouraged her to marry and he'd never questioned the friendships she'd had with women, which after all had run the gamut between entirely platonic and, rarely, heart-wrenchingly intimate—but it would be quite another thing for her to write about her desires with the kind of honesty she admired in the new writing she was starting to see in the more progressive journals.Well. There was simply no concentrating on her Spain essay after that. Sitting at her little desk in the Palais, Sylvia kept catching the scent of dust and lavender that reminded her of A. Monnier—the shop and the woman, both—and every time she buried her nose in her sleeves to find the source of it, she found it was always elusive. The original work by Homer, through projection and interpretation, centuries later, landed up as being something completely different in the hands of James Joyce, which added an anti-Semitic, anti-Christian flair and some salacious details to the characters. This was a fun book for book lovers. Many famous authors made appearances in the midst of a great story line. The heroine of the story was a strong woman with lofty goals during a time when women weren't looked upon as successful entrepreneurs. There were surprises throughout the book which kept my interest while reading. It was well written and the descriptions made you feel like you were there. I highly recommend this book for all types of readers.
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