- Booksellers and bookselling, Bookstores, England, Fiction
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.
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Classical in form, prestige, contemplative and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Penelope Fitzgerald
- First published
- December 2, 2002
- Pages
- 180
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin, Insel Verlag GmbH, Everyman Publishers
- Editions
- 27
- Language
- Russian, Spanish, English, German
- ISBN
- 9783458360469
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“In 1959 Florence Green occasionally passed a night when she was not absolutely sure whether she had slept or not.”
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