contemporary-day bookstore owners may be struggling to stay afloat in the age of Amazon and e-readers, but they don’t contain to battle the more deceptively cloaked threat of quaint (charmingly old fashioned) English conservatism that the 1950s heroine of “The Bookshop” faces with an upper lip of pure cast iron. In picking Penelope Fitzgerald’s slim but subtly potent […]
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