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| Title | : | The Bookshop |
| Author | : | Penelope Fitzgerald |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 123 pages |
| Published | : | September 15th 1997 by Mariner Books (first published October 1st 1978) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Writing. Books About Books. Historical. Historical Fiction. European Literature. British Literature. Literary Fiction. Novels. Literature |
Penelope Fitzgerald
Paperback | Pages: 123 pages Rating: 3.29 | 14551 Users | 2376 Reviews
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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.
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| Original Title: | The Bookshop |
| ISBN: | 0395869463 (ISBN13: 9780395869468) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Florence Green, Violet Gamart |
| Setting: | East Anglia, England,1959 |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee (1978) |
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Ratings: 3.29 From 14551 Users | 2376 ReviewsEvaluation Containing Books The Bookshop
As a child I often said to my mother: "That's not fair!" She would respond with : "Life's not fair". Florence Green, the main character in The Bookshop, would certainly agree.Florence tried to expand the minds of the inhabitants of Hardborough without success. The ethos of this village just wasn't buying it. Due to ignorance, cruelty or apathy, the people let Florence know that what she wanted for them was not what they wanted, certainly not Nabokov's controversial Lolita.I loved this story andThis is such a good book. Curt, poignant, understated, witty, charming, ruthless.Every time I picked it up I felt myself slowly sink into its chilly English waters and upon rolling my eyes over its crisp sentences Id abandon myself to the tug of its current and let it drag me serenely away. The very small town of Hardborough earns its name ten times over. Surrounded by bogs and marshes, smothered by nasty weather, groped by touchy tides, and filled with bitter, selfish, gossipy souls. And
If you asked me to choose a writer particularly skilled at illustrating the latent nastiness that lurks in small provincial towns, my first choice would probably be a French author -- either Balzac or de Maupassant. The cruelties and resentments of village life are recurrent themes in their work -- a good illustration is one of de Maupassant's earliest and best-known stories, Boule de Suife , which paints a devastating picture of the meanness and nastiness that characterizes the behavior of the
Oh my.....this is a dark little story. Afterwards, it leaves you thinking. Devastating. Real. I believe this could happen. I am grateful that the ten-and-a-half-year-old Christine, the shop assistant, is woven into the story. I needed her and I needed to experience the relationship between her and Florence Green, the bookshop's owner. The whole story is told over a short passage of a few months from 1959 to 1960 in a small Suffolk town on the North Sea. It is interesting to note that the author
Reading this in conjunction with other nominees for the 1978 Booker Prize, like Jane Gardam's God on the Rocks and Kingsley Amis's Jake's Thing, really does give you this impression of 70s England as a place of small towns, insular gossip, hostility to new ideas, and a preoccupation with quotidian concerns over any sense of the wider world. In a sense, fair enough but one does slightly yearn for a little more ambition and pizzazz in the novelling world. By comparison, Iris Murdoch's The Sea,
Jaline wrote: "Fabulous review, Barbara! I am so glad to see you enjoyed this one so much as it is on my wishlist and now I am really looking forward
Sjusamillabakka There is strength and beauty in the margins, where we easily, maybe deliberately, fail to look. While I was reading this, I came across an archaic Shetland fishermens taboo word, sjusamillabakka, for the shifting, liminal space betwixt land and sea. Sjusamillabakka is perfect for this book: Geographically: set in a small, remote coastal town, on an island between sea and river. Connectedly: every fifty years or so it had lost, as though careless or indifferent to such things,
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