Book store rejoyces at sales boost
THE b o o k s t o r e t h a t published James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses has been overwhelmed by a response to a plea for help following pandemic losses.
S h a k e s p e a r e a n d Company, the Paris shop that the Dublin writer also used as an office, appealed to readers for support after France’s spring lockdown.
The drop in trade put the future of the Left Bank institution in doubt.
But in the past seven days there have been 5,000 online orders, compared with around 100 i n a normal week.
S y l v i a W h i t m a n , daughter of late proprietor George Whitman, sai d: “We’ve been [ down] 80% since the first confinement in March, so at this point we’ve used all our savings.”