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Product Identifiers
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-100395869463
ISBN-139780395869468
eBay Product ID (ePID)693478
Product Key Features
Book TitleBookshop : a Novel
Number of Pages128 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterary, Historical
Publication Year1997
GenreFiction
AuthorPenélope Fitzgerald
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight5.6 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN97-025389
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"Belongs in the first flight of English novelists writing today" Boston Globe "A marvelously piercing fiction" The Literary Supplement
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal823/.914
SynopsisIn 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop - the only bookshop - in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers. By daring to enlarge her neighbors' lives, she crosses Mrs. Gamart, the local arts doyenne. Florence's warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently haunted. Only too late does she begin to suspect the truth: a town that lacks a bookshop isn't always a town that wants one., From the author of The Blue Flower comes a comic study of stiff upper lip in the face of small-town nastiness--a perfect little gem (BBC Kaleidoscope). A marvelously piercing fiction.--Times Literary Supplement.