The Bookshop
by Penelope Fitzgerald
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Author: Penelope FitzgeraldEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-09-15
ISBN: 0395869463
Number of pages: 123
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.
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Florence Green had the good fortune to care deeply about something--books. Old House, the location in Hardborough where Mrs. Green planned a book store, had a poltergeist, rapper. Florence went to a party and learned that the grande dame of the community, Mrs. Gamart, did not approve of her having obtained the lease-hold of Old House for her bookshop. Gamart wanted to place a relative in a postion of running an arts center at that location.
In setting up the property Florence received assistance from some Sea Scouts. In her first week of operation, she took in between seventy and eighty pounds at the Old House Bookshop. She started a lending library through a service after the most dignified and very elderly inhabitant of Hardborough wrote her a note thanking her for opening the shop and stating that he would be a library subscriber.
Mrs. Green acquired a child assistant. (The lending library had to close for a month to become better organized. On its first day it had approximately thirty patrons, all seeking the same one book about Queen Mary.) Florence was betrayed, in buying things for the shop, by her weakness for beauty. In late middle age, it seemed, the upper middle class of Suffolk painted water colors. She was asked to exhibit the works. Florence had no room to mount exhibits. She had to tell the child, Christine, that customers were entitled to browse. The lending library started again. The child was severe. No one was to look at anyone else's selection. Florence had courage because she wanted to survive. She sold LOLITA, attracting passers-by to her shop window.
The lending library closed because, mysteriously, Hardborough was granted a long sought for public library. Next a new book store opened in a neighboring town. Christine's results in the eleven plus exam were poor. She stopped working for Florence. The old historic inhabitant ventured out to go to Mrs. Gamart's, a place he had never gone to before notwithstanding numerous invitations, to tell her to leave Florence Green alone. An order for compulsory purchase of ancient buildings had crawled through Parliament in a private bill. He died on his walk home and Mrs. Gamart lied about the reason for his visit. Florence was dispossessed. No compensation was paid because of the damp.
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