Bibliograph

The Bookshop, a Novel, Penelope Fitzgerald

Type

Label

The Bookshop, a Novel, Penelope Fitzgerald

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

General adult

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The Bookshop

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

904820145

Responsibility statement

Penelope Fitzgerald

Review

"Belongs in the first flight of English novelists writing today" Boston Globe "A marvelously piercing fiction" The Literary Supplement

Sub title

a Novel

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

Target audience

general

Classification