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A carregar... THE BOOKSHOP [Film tie-in edition] (original 1977; edição 2018)por Fitzgerald (Autor)
Informação Sobre a ObraThe Bookshop por Penelope Fitzgerald (1977)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I pretty read this small and perfectly formed novel in one sitting. It disabuses you of the romance of opening a bookshop in a small town by the sea - there is a remarkably little about books in it, and a lot about small-mindedness, annoying neighbours and the difficulties of being an outsider. Recommended. ( ) If you have ever thought given your love of books you might one day start or one day might have started a bookshop, you might find this book of interest. Or maybe it's not the book for you. In any case, location is, of course, paramount. I liked the sea nearby, the beach, the characters and how they say what they don't mean, or withhold at any rate what they're really thinking. The small town economics, politics, social classes, education. The old building in disrepair and haunted. The outsider from outside, and the outsider from within. There's a movie, which did not hold entirely to the book, but it's a good movie, and does the book no harm. "Culture is for amateurs." It is now de rigueur to declare Fitzgerald as one of the great neglected English novelists of the 20th century, and I must add my voice to that woeful chorus. Her starkly funny - or perhaps humorous upsetting - style is akin to those great ladies Muriel Spark and Barbara Pym. Her characters, like theirs, often hover on the fringes of good society; the "distressed gentlewomen", Pym often calls them. Florence Green is one such character, a plain but still reasonably young widow who chooses to open a bookshop in a town that wants to reject her at every turn - even her resident poltergeist wants nothing to do with her. In 10 short chapters, Fitzgerald outlines Florence's unsettling encounters with the townfolk in wry, pointed notes, never allowing us to become either sympathetic or deeply enmeshed in the lives of any of them. Its events are of no consequence, and yet somehow feel staggeringly consequential. And at the heart of it all are questions about how we appreciate culture, how we relate to books themselves, and why we allow our dreams to take hold of us against all reason. A deeply enjoyable read for fans of ironic British novelists.
Beim Leser bleibt das Gefühl zurück, einem Etikettenschwindel erlegen zu sein, denn die Buchhandlung wird mit einer Passion betrieben, mit der auch ein Fischladen geführt werden könnte. Aber Lesebegeisterung als Eigenschaft der Protagonisten ist en vogue, von Huizings "Buchtrinker" bis zu Cohens "Buchhändler". Das wird wohl dazu geführt haben, den bereits 1978 im Englischen publizierten Roman nun ins Deutsche zu übersetzen. Und "Der Fischladen" wäre ja auch wirklich ein blöder Titel.
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. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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