The Sweet-Shop Owner

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.

Author: Graham Swift
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/02/1993
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.27w x 0.68d
ISBN13: 9780679739807
ISBN10: 0679739807
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Family Life | General
- Fiction | Historical | General

About the Author
Graham Swift was born in 1949 and is the author of ten novels, three collections of short stories, and Making an Elephant, a book of essays, portraits, poetry, and reflections on his life in writing. With Waterland, he won the Guardian Fiction Award, and with Last Orders the Booker Prize. Both novels have since been made into films. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages.

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