num_pages: 384
description: This is a first-ever history of the legendary bohemian bookstore in Paris. It interweaves essays and poetry from dozens of writers associated with the shop--Allen Ginsberg Anas Nin Ethan Hawke Robert Stone and Jeanette Winterson among others--with hundreds of never-before-seen archival pieces. It includes photographs of James Baldwin William Burroughs and Langston Hughes plus a foreword by the celebrated British novelist Jeanette Winterson and an epilogue by Sylvia Whitman the daughter of the stores founder George Whitman. The book has been edited by Krista Halverson director of the newly founded Shakespeare and Company publishing house.
language: English
title: Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart
publisher: Shakespeare and Company Paris