The Bookshop : A Novel by Penelope Fitzgerald (1997, Paperback)

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9780395869468
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0395869463
ISBN-13
9780395869468
eBay Product ID (ePID)
693478

Product Key Features

Book Title
Bookshop : a Novel
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Historical
Publication Year
1997
Genre
Fiction
Author
Penélope Fitzgerald
Format
Trade Paperback

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0.3 in
Item Weight
5.6 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in

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Trade
LCCN
97-025389
Dewey Edition
21
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"Belongs in the first flight of English novelists writing today" Boston Globe "A marvelously piercing fiction" The Literary Supplement
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The
Dewey Decimal
823/.914
Synopsis
In 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.
LC Classification Number
PR6056.I86B66 1997

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  • by darlengonzale_16
    18 Sep, 2018

    The Bookstore—that’s what the main character was trying to establish

    I was excited to read this because I love books about cozy quaint seaside towns, and I liked the premise that the protagonist was attempting to turn an old house into what would be the town’s only bookstore. But the writing and the content was, unfortunately, rather drab and tedious, and I found myself unable to sustain any interest in the characters or the story...to the point where I finally abandoned it altogether, unfinished.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: mtwyouth

  • by deborabeli_0
    25 Jul, 2018

    Exactly where all readers want to be.

    Penelope is a wonderful , detailed, and engaging writer. It's hard to put this book down, when I do I find myself thinking about her book and where the story is going to lead to, this I like.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: thrift.books

  • by dunn222
    19 Feb, 2019

    Boring

    Written long ago in England. I didn’t care for it.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: thrift.books

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