- Loneliness, Man-woman relationships, Music stores, Record stores
It's 1988. The CD has arrived. Sales of the shiny new disks are soaring on high streets in cities across the country. Meanwhile, down a dead-end street, Frank's music shop stands small and brightly lit, jam-packed with records of every kind.
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Classical in form, intimate, earnest and contemplative.
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Rachel Joyce
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 368
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Limited, Transworld Digital, Random House Publishing Group
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780552779456
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Rachel Joyce is the author of the Sunday Times and international bestsellers The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Perfect, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, The Music Shop and a collection of interlinked short stories, A Snow Garden & Other Stories. Her books have been translated into thirty-six languages and two are in development for film. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book prize and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Rachel was awarded the Specsavers National Book Awards ‘New Writer of the Year’ in December 2012 and shortlisted for the ‘UK Author of the Year’ 2014. Rachel has also written over twenty original afternoon plays and adapt
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