The Bookshop A Novel |
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| Author:
| Fitzgerald, Penelope |
| ISBN: | 978-1-299-90117-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1997 |
| Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $14.95 |
Book Description:
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Short-listed for the Booker Prize A beautiful book, a perfect little gem. BBC "Kaleidoscope" A marvelously piercing fiction. " Times Literary Supplement " 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...
More DescriptionShort-listed for the Booker Prize
A beautiful book, a perfect little gem. BBC "Kaleidoscope"
A marvelously piercing fiction. " Times Literary Supplement "
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.
This new edition features an introduction by David Nicholls, author of "One Day," along with new cover art. "