The Sweet Shop Owner

Name: The Sweet Shop Owner
Brand: Goldsboro Books
SKU: 9780713912470
Price: 1500.0 GBP
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The Sweet Shop Owner

by Graham Swift

Publisher Allen Lane

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Publication date: January 1, 1980

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A fine edition in the publisher's brown cloth. In a very good dust jacket with minor wrinkling at top corner of front cover.

About the book

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.

About the Author

Graham Swift

Graham Swift is an English writer. Born in London, England, he was educated at Dulwich College, London, Queen's College, Cambridge, and later the University of York.

Some of Swift's books have been filmed, including Waterland, Shuttlecock and Last Orders. His novel Last Orders was joint-winner of the 1996 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and a mildly controversial winner of the 1996 Booker Prize, owing to the similarities in plot to William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying.

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