The Bookshop: A Novel
by Penelope Fitzgerald | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0395869463 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0395869463 Global Overview for this book
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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.
My coworker gave me this book to read and then register through BookCrossing. Since I already had a copy of the book I decided to list it on BookMooch, a new book trading site.
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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.
My coworker gave me this book to read and then register through BookCrossing. Since I already had a copy of the book I decided to list it on BookMooch, a new book trading site.
I'm sending this book off to BookMooch member doobs54 today.
