Penelope Fitzgerald: THE BOOK SHOP

The book, written by Penelope Fitzgerald, was shorlisted for the Booker Prize in 1978. The Book Shop tells the story of a widow, who, from the modest amount she inherited, opened the Old House Bookshop in a building which seemed to be haunted. She employed a 10-year-old assistant. She sold Nabokov's Lolita, which became a hit, and which caused her to be in legal and political conflicts. She met an opposition in a local gentry who has other plan for the building. And so on ... until she finally closed the bookshop and left the town, disillutioned.

This is nevertheless a good read.

Rating: 3.0/5.0

{19 February 2010}