The Sweet-Shop Owner
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0679739807 / Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, March 1993
A lonely shop owner has trouble adjusting to the death of his wife and his daughter's estrangement
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<b>The Sweet-Shop Owner</b> 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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