The Bookshop

The Bookshop
ISBN-10
0395869463
ISBN-13
9780395869468
Category
Booksellers and bookselling
Pages
132
Language
English
Published
1997
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Author
Penelope Fitzgerald

Description

From the author of "The Blue Flower" comes a comic study of stiff upper lip in the face of small-town nastiness--"a perfect little gem" ("BBC Kaleidoscope"). "A marvelously piercing fiction".--"Times Literary Supplement".

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