Penelope Fitzgerald: a life
The acclaimed biographer of Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf gives us a vivid, intimate, and critically acute portrait of one of the finest and most understated novelists of the twentieth century. Penelope Fitzgerald was a great English writer-many say the greatest in recent years-whose career didn't begin until she was nearly sixty. Her life moved from a Bishop's Palace to a sinking barge, from a life of teaching and obscurity to a blaze of renown. Her novels are short, spare masterpieces: sub…
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- Full title :Penelope Fitzgerald : a life / Hermione Lee.
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The acclaimed biographer of Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf gives us a vivid, intimate, and critically acute portrait of one of the finest and most understated novelists of the twentieth century. Penelope Fitzgerald was a great English writer-many say the greatest in recent years-whose career didn't begin until she was nearly sixty. Her life moved from a Bishop's Palace to a sinking barge, from a life of teaching and obscurity to a blaze of renown. Her novels are short, spare masterpieces: subtle, understated, and highly intellectual. The early works draw on Fitzgerald's own experiences-working at the BBC in wartime; at a failing bookshop in Suffolk; at an eccentric stage school-while her later books open out into historical worlds that, magically, she seems to entirely possess. Despite the late start of her career, Fitzgerald's books won some of the most coveted awards in literature: the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Hers is a story of lateness, persistence, and redemption. Now, Hermione Lee, a master biographer and one of Fitzgerald's greatest champions, gives us this remarkable author's unforgettable story.
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- Publication Date:©2013
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- Publisher(s):Knopf
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2013
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xvi, 488 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : : illustrations, genealogical table
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780385352352, 0385352352
- oclc:ocn883341136
- LC Classification:PR6056.I86
- Dewey Decimal:823.914
Table of Contents
The bishops' granddaughter -- Learning to read -- The "blonde bombshell" -- Love and war -- The world -- The Bookshop -- Clinging on for dear life -- Family matters -- The teacher -- The useful arts -- Enigmas -- The prize -- The ventriloquist -- Innocence -- The Beginning of Spring -- The Gate of Angels -- The Blue Flower -- Last words.
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