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The Bookshop
The Bookshop
Author: Penelope Fitzgerald
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. Gama...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780395869468
ISBN-10: 0395869463
Publication Date: 9/15/1997
Pages: 128
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3.5 stars, based on 45 ratings
Publisher: Mariner Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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Yes, she does have a knack for creating interesting characters, but I found the ending kind of depressing, and life in Hardborough...also kind of depressing. I think I'm ready for something a little deeper...=0)
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Wow, this was boring! I don't usually mind a slow pace as long as the story is good or the descriptions are vivid and interesting, but I just didn't get anything out of this one. And I missed the humor too, I guess it was waaayyy too dry for me.
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A widow decides to open a bookshop in a town that doesn't have a book store, and only too late begins to suspect the truth...that a town
choosing to survive.

I loved this book! The language was perfectly chosen, the situations made me smile, and I even had to read some of it aloud to my husband.

Florence Green(the widow) is to be admired for her wit, and her innocent courage, that comes from simply choosing to survive. As Balzac said, the ordinariness of human lives can never be a measure of the effort it takes to keep them going.

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Very short - Written in English but the British way of phrasing took some deciphering, conversations sometimes left me a bit confused - interesting characters - disappointing ending


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