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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 Sweet-Shop Owner is set during a single June day in the life of an outwardly unremarkable man whose inner world proves to be exceptionally resonant. As he tends to his customers, Willy Chapman, the sweet-shop owner, confronts the specters of his beautiful and distant wife and his clever, angry daughter, the history through which he has passed, and the great, unrequited passion that has tormented him for forty years.
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"Book for book, Swift is surely one of England's finest living novelists." -New York Review of Books
"This beautifully balanced novel describes the arrangements, accommodations, pacts and treaties of our ordinary lives." -The Times (London)
"Graham Swift is a writer of extraordinary power." -San Francisco Chronicle
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- PublisherA. Lane
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0713912472
- ISBN 13 9780713912470
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages221
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