Sweet Shop Owner, The

Sweet Shop Owner, The
Graham Swift
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Paperback
h198 x 130mm - 336pg
11 Jul 2019 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781471187353
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The first novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders and Waterland In the sweet shop Willy Chapman was free, absolved from all responsibility, and he ran his sweet shop like his life – quietly, steadfastly, devotedly. It was a bargain struck between Chapman and his beautiful, emotionally injured wife – a bargain based on unexpressed, inexpressible love and on a courageous acceptance of life’s deprivations . . . threatened only by Dorry, their clever, angry, unforgiving daughter. ‘In his moving first novel, The Sweet Shop Owner, Graham Swift illuminates the history of one man through flashbacks on the last day of that man’s life. Through the succinctly evoked provincial decades one of the engrossing features is the difficulty of love and of communication between generations’ London Review of Books ‘Book for book, Swift is surely one of England’s finest novelists’ John Banville
Graham Swift was born in 1949 and is the author of eight acclaimed novels and a collection of short stories. With Waterland he won the Guardian Fiction Prize (1983), and with Last Orders the Booker Prize (1996). Both novels have since been made into films. Graham Swift's work has appeared in over thirty languages.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781471187353
Published: 11 Jul 2019
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Scribner UK
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 130mm
Pages: 336

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