The Sweet-Shop Owner by Graham Swift (ISBN:0679739807)

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		The Sweet-Shop Owner
	
				(4 reviews)			
(59 Readers)

			Graham Swift		
	
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...more
 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.   less

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
couldn't put it down loved it

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
his "Waterlands" was very good, but this book I am having a very difficult time getting through.

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
I really enjoyed Swift's first novel.  The writing style was something I haven't encountered before and the subsequent result of his originality was powerful.  He told a moving story of a simple man's life and makes us take a moment to pause on family relations and the past we each have.

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
An excellent place to start with Swift, moving yet accessible.

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