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Essential Read

The Bookshop

by Penelope Fitzgerald · 1978

Classics · ranked #47 in category

Florence Green decides to open a bookshop in a small Suffolk town in 1959. The town resists. Fitzgerald's very short novel is a study in quiet, devastating cruelty — how institutions, minor power and social habit conspire against someone who simply wants to do something good. One of the bleakest comedies in English fiction.

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The verdict

Category
Classics
First published
1978 · 1970s
Author
Penelope Fitzgerald
Standing
Essential Read

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