When the Guillotine Fell
The Bloody Beginning And Horrifying End to France's River of Blood, 1791-1977
Mercer, Jeremy
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AUTHOR BIO
JEREMY MERCER is the author of Time Was Soft There, two crime books, and a former writer for the Ottawa Citizen. He lives in Marseille, France.
BOOK REVIEWS
Praise for Jeremy Mercers "Time Was Soft There":
"Ably captures a romanticized version of the bum's life."--The New Yorker
"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
"[Mercer] has fashioned a colorful de facto biography of Whitman . . . with an unblinking gaze at his own sometimes unsavory qualities in a tightly written, insightful memoir of Left Bank literary radicalism. A great read, both funny and quietly moving."--San Francisco Chronicle
"Mercer writes with flair . . . and the milieu he evokes, while a long way from that of the Lost Generation, has its own charm."--The Wall Street Journal
"The memoir is 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
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0312357915
ISBN(13-digit): 9780312357917
Dewey Decimal: 364.660944
Library of Congress: 2008012873
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 312
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