The bookshop
In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop <U+2014> the only bookshop <U+2014> 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...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin,
1997.
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
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| Online Access: | Go to Downloadable eBook Here. |
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| Summary: | In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop <U+2014> the only bookshop <U+2014> 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. |
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| Item Description: | "A Mariner original." |
| Physical Description: | p. cm. |
| ISBN: | 0395869463 |
| Author Notes: | Penelope Fitzgerald lives in England. (Bowker Author Biography) |
