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AVE, VICTOR HUGO

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20040502
Author:Joshua Glenn

ON MEMORIAL DAY a local landmark - Vincent McCaffrey and Thais Coburn's used bookstore Avenue Victor Hugo, on upper Newbury Street since 1975 - will be shuttered forever. Available free at the store's going-out-of-business sale (and at AvenueVictorHugo.com) are copies of "The Crepuscule: Twelve Reasons for the Death of Small and Independent Bookstores," McCaffrey's lyrical jeremiad blaming the death of bookstores like his on everyone from publishers, editors, and authors to reviewers and readers. Ideas telephoned McCaffrey (pictured at right) at his bookstore.

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