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Bookstore fades into twilight, doomed in a hurry-up world.(News)

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From: The Boston Herald
Date: 20040601
Author:Eagan, Margery

Byline: Margery Eagan

Last night after a 30-year run, the famous Newbury Street used and rare book store Avenue Victor Hugo closed for good. Amid leather-bound volumes of Tennyson and piles of "Life" and "National Geographic" from 1924, owner Vincent McCaffrey talked about the different way people read, or don't read, today. He also talked about the different way we live.

"Everything is a brief experience now," said McCaffrey, who opened his store after selling books on a pushcart for three years. "We used to lie on a lawn on summer days reading a novel. Now we lie on ...

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