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.
- ISBN10 0671546112
- ISBN13 9780671546113
- Publish Date 1 June 1985 (first published 24 April 1980)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 April 2021
- Publisher Simon & Schuster
- Imprint Pocket Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 222
- Language English