'The Bookshop': A Caustic Tale of Clashing Sensibilities Gets A Too-Gentle Treatment

To make Penelope Fitzgerald's astringent novel more broadly palatable, adapter Isabel Coixet softens it nearly beyond recognition. Fitzgerald fans, be warned: The result is marketable but mealy.

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