Settling in Paris at the end of WWI, Sylvia Beach befriends Parisian bookstore owner Adrienne Monnier. Shakespeare and Company is more than a bookstore and lending library: Many of the 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. A story of friendships, legal entanglements and betrayals, this is a feast of a novel for fellow book lovers! Part of our Summer Reading Collection: Novels