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A novel about a bargain struck between a quiet man who runs a sweet shop and his emotionally damaged wife who has to accept life's deprivations. But it is a bargain that is threatened by their clever, angry and unforgiving daughter. From the author of LAST ORDERS
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The first novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders and Waterland.
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Graham Swift was born in 1949 and is the author of ten novels, three collections of short stories, and Making an Elephant, a book of essays, portraits, poetry, and reflections on his life in writing. With Waterland, he won the Guardian Fiction Award, and with Last Orders the Booker Prize. Both novels have since been made into films. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0140086889
- ISBN 13 9780140086881
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 221 pages. Cover wornThe first novel from the Booker Prize-wi nning author of Last Orders and Waterland In the sweet shop Willy Chapman was free, absolved from all responsibility, and he ran h is sweet shop like his life - quietly, steadfastly, devotedly. It was a bargain struck between Chapman and his beautiful, emotiona lly 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 daught er. 'In his moving first novel, The Sweet Shop Owner, Graham Swif t illuminates the history of one man through flashbacks on the la st day of that man's life. Through the succinctly evoked provinci al decades one of the engrossing features is the difficulty of lo ve and of communication between generations' London Review of Boo ks 'This beautifully balanced novel describes the arrangements, a ccommodations, pacts and treaties of our ordinary lives' The Time s 'A quiet but beautifully shaped book' Literary Review 'Book for book, Swift is surely one of England's finest novelists' John Ba nville 'A remarkable novel . . . There is a touch of Joyce in Gra ham Swift's revelation of the hidden poetry of small men's lives' New York Times Book Review. Seller Inventory # 1359ad
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