The Bookshop : A Novel Paperback - 1997
by Penelope Fitzgerald
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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.
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- Title The Bookshop : A Novel
- Author Penelope Fitzgerald
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 128
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Boston
- Date 1997
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0395869463I4N00
- ISBN 9780395869468 / 0395869463
- Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 8.26 x 5.58 x 0.34 in (20.98 x 14.17 x 0.86 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Political fiction, England - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97025389
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
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.