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Book Review of The Bookshop

The Bookshop
The Bookshop
Author: Penelope Fitzgerald
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 3


This is a serious book of modern literature. In only 123 pages, Fitzgerald delivers portraits of unforgettable characters in a difficult situation when an "outsider" retiree opens a bookstore in 1959 in a small English hamlet, Hardborough--foreshadowing intended. What can be accomplished in so few pages is remarkable. And the book rises in my estimation every week since I've finished reading it. It's an eye-opener.