Description
Title: Bookshop, The
Author: FITZGERALD PENELOPE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 15/03/1993
Imprint: HARPER COLLINS
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
Penelope Fitzgerald’s wonderful Booker-nominated novel. This, Penelope Fitzgerald’s second novel, was her first to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It is set in a small East Anglian coastal town, where Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. ‘She had a kind heart, but that is not much use when it comes to the matter of self-preservation.’
Hardborough becomes a battleground, as small towns so easily do. Florence has tried to change the way things have always been done, and as a result, she has to take on not only the people who have made themselves important, but natural and even supernatural forces too. This is a story for anyone who knows that life has treated them with less than justice.
ISBN: 9780006543541
Weight: 130g
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 176
Edition: 01