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The Sweet-Shop Owner

by Graham Swift
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The Sweet-Shop Owner
The Sweet-Shop Owner

Single day reveals a lifetime of hidden yearnings.

If you've ever found yourself pondering life's deeper undercurrents while engaged in the mundane, "The Sweet-Shop Owner" might resonate with you. Graham Swift masterfully compresses a man's entire emotional history into the routine of a single day. It's a subtle reminder of the profound stories that often lie behind a quiet facade, and could make you see the extraordinary in the everyday.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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The Sweet-Shop Owner

by Graham Swift
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ISBN: 9780679739807
Authors: Graham Swift
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date of Publication: 1993-03-02
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.6
(rated by 687 readers)

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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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Single day reveals a lifetime of hidden yearnings.

If you've ever found yourself pondering life's deeper undercurrents while engaged in the mundane, "The Sweet-Shop Owner" might resonate with you. Graham Swift masterfully compresses a man's entire emotional history into the routine of a single day. It's a subtle reminder of the profound stories that often lie behind a quiet facade, and could make you see the extraordinary in the everyday.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.