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Bay A Quote from
Vincent McCaffrey
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Victor Hugo Bookshop deals in used, rare and out-of-print
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“We
love popular literature. I don’t
sell James Joyce. I sell Nevil Shute. Joyce is a great author
and everybody sells him, but most of Neville Shute is out of
print. The difference with the academic crowd is that to
them Nevil
Shute is not a great author. The importance to the reading
public is that Nevil is a great author; he just was never
recognized
by the academic powers that be. The public will read Nevil
when they discover him, and he was the best selling author
of his time.
They will keep reading because he is so enjoyable. Whereas,
most people give up on Joyce after the first book and never
read him
again. It’s a whole different world.” -Vincent McCaffrey-
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