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A middle-aged widow, Florence Green, wants to open a bookshop in her adopted hometown. She is opposed by the forces of petty jealousy, self-importance, and the narrow views of small-town folk who prefer their bourgeois existence undisturbed. Fitzgerald deftly lays each character bare, revealing their casual cruelty, while they congratulate themselves on their moral certitude. The language is perfect and spare. In only 123 pages, the author creates an exquisite vignette of the insularity of a sma
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