| The Sweet-Shop Owner Contributor(s): Swift, Graham (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679739807 ISBN-13: 9780679739807 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $12.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1993 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 92056342 |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.27" W x 8.06" (0.56 lbs) 224 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |