The Bookshop
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
09.06.2015
Verlag
HarperCollinsSeitenzahl
192
Maße (L/B/H)
20,3/13,4/1,7 cm
Gewicht
158 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-544-48409-2
National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author Penelope Fitzgerald's The Bookshop is "a marvelously piercing fiction" (Times Literary Supplement), short-listed for the Booker Prize.
With an Introduction by David Nicholls, international best-selling author of One Day.
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.
Basis for the major motion picture starring Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, and Patricia Clarkson.
With an Introduction by David Nicholls, international best-selling author of One Day.
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.
Basis for the major motion picture starring Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, and Patricia Clarkson.
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A silent struggle for independence and freedom
Bérénice aus Jona am 28.09.2022
Bewertungsnummer: 1795147
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This novel is about a small seaside village in England of the late fifties. A kindhearted widow decides to have a new start in her life and offer the local community an access to books. Yet, the undertaking is a path strewn with obstacles. Florence Green remains optimistic and determined that kindness will eventually bring the good to the town’s life, but that is without counting on Mrs. Gamart’s tenacity to disrupt her plans. Unimpressed Florence Green goes on to let her small business thrive, but how long will it take until she realises that she has seldom support?
While it seems to be a simple and straightforward story, there are a lot of things unsaid and a lot of implications that are merely hinted to. The underlying complexity of Florence Green’s undertaking goes beyond the success of a bookshop. It is a struggle for independence and freedom for both her and the community.
I seldom enjoy a movie more than a novel, but I can warmly recommend the movie “The Bookshop” which digs deeper into the unsaid and gives more character to some people that can merely be perceived as bystanders.
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