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AT AVENUE VICTOR HUGO, REMEMBRANCES OF GOOD BOOKS PAST A MAN'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE WILL SOON MOVE TO INTERNET

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20040516
Author:Elizabeth Rau, GLOBE CORRESPONDENT

For the first nine years of his life, Vincent McCaffrey rarely opened a book. Then one day he strolled into a bookshop in his hometown of Larchmont, N.Y., and bought a paperback about pirates.

He took "Treasure Island" back to his bedroom, the one with the slanted ceilings on the third floor of his old Victorian house, and read it cover to cover. The skinny, gawky boy who was lousy at sports had discovered the joy of escaping into a book.

Years later, when it came time for him to decide how to make a living, he raised a few thousand dollars and opened a second-hand bookshop on Newbury Street ...

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