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Time Was Soft There - by Jeremy Mercer (Paperback)

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  • Wandering through Paris's Left Bank one day, poor and unemployed, Canadian reporter Jeremy Mercer ducked into a little bookstore called Shakespeare & Co.
  • About the Author: Jeremy Mercer was formerly a journalist for the Ottawa Citizen.
  • 272 Pages
  • Travel, Europe

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About the Book



In a leafy square on Paris's Left Bank, a young writer finds a home and an unlikely mentor among the shelves of a legendary bookshop.



Book Synopsis



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.



Review Quotes




"Jeremy Mercer's tale of George Whitman and his beloved bookstore is a book of revelations, for it tells the hard-to-discover true story of George's life and of the twenty-thousand-and-one nights of this enchanted place that continues to be, for its habitées as well as for its creator, a way of life." --Lawrence Ferlinghetti, cofounder and owner, City Lights Bookstore

"The memoir is much more than an entertaining romp through Parisian literary bohemia at the turn of the millennium. Time Was Soft There will likely be the last firsthand account of an aging legend." --Newsweek

"Mercer has fashioned a colorful de facto biography of Whitman . . . a tightly written, insightful memoir of Left Bank literary radicalism. A great read, both funny and quietly moving." --San Francisco Chronicle

"The milieu he evokes, while a long way from that of the Lost Generation, has its own charm." --The Wall Street Journal

"The memoir ably captures a romanticized version of the bum's life." --The New Yorker

"Mercer is a fine writer with a keen and jaundiced eye." --Chicago Tribune




About the Author



Jeremy Mercer was formerly a journalist for the Ottawa Citizen. He is the author of two crime books and founder of Kilometer Zero, a cult literary magazine currently being published out of Shakespeare & Co.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.2 Inches (H) x 5.4 Inches (W) x .8 Inches (D)
Weight: .6 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 272
Genre: Travel
Sub-Genre: Europe
Publisher: Picador USA
Theme: France
Format: Paperback
Author: Jeremy Mercer
Language: English
Street Date: September 19, 2006
TCIN: 77020965
UPC: 9780312347406
Item Number (DPCI): 247-25-3650
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.8 inches length x 5.4 inches width x 8.2 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 0.6 pounds
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