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The bookshop / Penelope Fitzgerald.
LIBRA - Special PR6056.I86 B66 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fitzgerald, Penelope.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 123 pages ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Book shop
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1978]
- 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. Her warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently...haunted. Only too late does she begin to suspect the truth: that a town that lacks a bookshop isn't always a town that wants one. Balzac, an expert on how nasty people can be to one another in small country places, once said that the ordinariness of human lives can never be a measure of the effort it takes to keep them going. Anyone who has found this to be true will admire Florence Green for her wit and her innocent courage, a courage that comes from simply choosing to survive."
- ISBN:
- 0395869463
- 9780395869468
- OCLC:
- 317391550
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