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The Bookshop

A Novel

By Penelope Fitzgerald

(15)

| Paperback | 9780395869468

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Book Description

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 enlaContinue

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theasylum published on Fri, 10 Sep 2010

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Hardborough - 1959

I had high expectations on this book due to the subject (books and bookshops!). It is nice enough but her writing style is not one that catch my attention particularly and let me forget about the rest of the world. For this reason it is a so-and-so mark.

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English Books
Paperback 128 Pages
Edition: Reprint
ISBN-10: 0395869463
ISBN-13: 9780395869468
Publisher: Mariner Books
Pub date: Sep 15, 1997
Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette and Others
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