The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald Paperback Book

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Author: Penelope Fitzgerald

Format: Paperback, Paperback

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Published: Sep 1997

Genre: Fiction - General

Retail Price: $13.95

Pages: 123

Synopsis

Florence Green, a widow, opens a bookshop in a small Suffolk town and this sets in motion a series of events through which the author portrays the town and its inhabitants as less sunny and innocent then they initially appear. A New York Times Notable Book for 1997, THE BOOKSHOP was also short-listed for the Booker Prize.

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