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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)

The Bookshop

Penelope Fitzgerald

Paperback | Pages: 123 pages

Rating: 3.29 | 14551 Users | 2376 Reviews

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Title	:	The Bookshop
Author	:	Penelope Fitzgerald
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe 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

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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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This is so delightfully funny and yet desperately sad at the same time that I'm spoilt for choice of marvels to share. Christine Gipping, for example, she of the broken front teeth: They had been broken during the previous winter in rather a strange manner, when the washing on the line froze hard, and she was caught a blow in the face with an icy vest. And this odd accident takes on a sinister note later in the novel when we discover that Christine has failed her 11 plus and will be going to

Gutted by that ending. Felt the doom, but still hoped for good things for Florence. I was reading an online version and literally didn't know it was the last page. Gutted!Is this Fitzgerald's usual method - the blunt trauma ending - anyone?I can't rate it either because nowhere near so much fun as Offshore, but this one has taken on a much weightier subject - in Fitzgerald's words: people fall into two divisions, the exterminators and exterminees.I don't agree with this; but authors will do as

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

RereadAccording to the oldest man in the village, until Florence Green (our main character) opens a bookstore, there hasnt been a bookshop in Hardborough (sounds Dickensian, doesnt it?) since Dombey and Son was being published in installments. Not coincidentally (Im guessing), Florence is also the name of Dombeys daughter (not mentioned in Dickens' title). Hardboroughs banker, certainly condescendingly, writes to Florence (Green, that is, not Dombey): If over any given period of time the cash

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

Sad but true, Doris, which maybe explains why so many books are dedicated to the phenomenon of evil?

On an unusually upbeat evening, I was winding up from work. The recently bought, crisp, intense 300-pages long fictional drama, that I had left, tantalizingly, at the 273rd page the previous night, was softly tip-toeing in front of my eyes. The unread pages were already floating invitingly in the evening breeze and I could not wait to reach home for resuming the date. When I was just stepping into the lift, I received a call from a friend, a bibliophile in fact. Hey! Do you know they are closing