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Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties (Paperback)

by Noel Riley Fitch (Author) "SYLVIA BEACH paced the platform of the Gare de Lyon, waiting alone in the chill morning air for the arrival of the train from Dijon..." (more)
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In 1917, Sylvia Beach walked into a Paris bookshop, where she met Adrienne Monnier, the woman who would become her life companion. In 1919, Beach opened her own English-language bookshop and lending library, Shakespeare and Company, which would become the cynosure of an entire literary movement. Literary expatriates were drawn to her shop, and Ernest Hemingway declared of Sylvia, "No one that I ever knew was nicer to me." But her most celebrated literary efforts are those she made on behalf of her literary idol, James Joyce, undertaking the publication of Ulysses. Noel Riley Fitch uses Beach as the focal point for a fascinating portrait of an artistic community filled with anecdote after anecdote. From the intellectual salons at Natalie Barney's residence--of which "William Carlos Williams would recall only the lesbian women dancing together"--to the seemingly constant presence of Ezra Pound, Fitch's account solidifies the importance of the time and place he so vividly re-creates. --Ron Hogan

Product Details
  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (May 1985)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0393302318
  • ISBN-13: 978-0393302318
  • Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.6 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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