The Bookshop: A Novel - Couverture souple

Fitzgerald, Penelope

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0395869463 ISBN 13 : 9780395869468

Editeur : Mariner Books, 1997

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.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

"Belongs in the first flight of English novelists writing today" Boston Globe

"A marvelously piercing fiction" The Literary Supplement

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0395869463
• ISBN 13: 9780395869468
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Procter & Gamble Service GmbH, Braun; https://in.pg.com/contact-us/; ; Sulzbacher Str. 40-50; Schwalbach/Ts.; 65824; Allemagne