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The bookshop / Penelope Fitzgerald ; introduction by David Nicholls.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780544484092 (paperback)
- ISBN: 0544484096 (paperback)
- Physical Description: xxiv, 156 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: Second Mariner books edition.
- Publisher: Boston : Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
- Copyright: ©1978
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| General Note: | Adapted into a motion picture of the same title in 2017. |
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| Subject: | Women in the book industries and trade > Fiction. Booksellers and bookselling > Fiction. Bookstores > Fiction. Widows > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Political fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Erlanger Branch | FITZG P (Text) | 33126023115599 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |