num_pages: 260
description: Wandering through Paris's Left Bank one day, poor and unemployed, Canadian reporter Jeremy Mercer ducked into a little bookstore called Shakespeare &amp; 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.
language: English
title: Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.
titlecomplete: Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.
genres: Biography, Travel, Biography Memoir, Literature, Autobiography, Nonfiction, History, Memoir, Books About Books, France
ratings_count: 3828
places: Paris
publisher: Picador USA