Means of Escape: Stories: .
Autor Penelope Fitzgeralden Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 noi 2000
With the death of Penelope Fitzgerald in 2000, the literary world lost one of its finest, most original, and most beloved authors. Completed just before her death, THE MEANS OF ESCAPE was Fitzgerald's first new book since the best-selling THE BLUE FLOWER. Never before have her short stories been collected in book form, and none of them has ever appeared in the United States.
THE MEANS OF ESCAPE showcases this incomparable author at her most intelligent, her funniest, her best. Like her novels, these brilliant stories are miniature studies of the endless absurdity of human behavior. Roaming the globe and the ages, the stories travel from England to France to New Zealand and from today to the seventeenth century. Uniting them is a universal theme: the shifting balance between those who are in positions of power -- by wealth, status, or class -- and those who are not. THE MEANS OF ESCAPE memorializes a life and a writer guided by a generous but unwavering moral gaze.
THE MEANS OF ESCAPE showcases this incomparable author at her most intelligent, her funniest, her best. Like her novels, these brilliant stories are miniature studies of the endless absurdity of human behavior. Roaming the globe and the ages, the stories travel from England to France to New Zealand and from today to the seventeenth century. Uniting them is a universal theme: the shifting balance between those who are in positions of power -- by wealth, status, or class -- and those who are not. THE MEANS OF ESCAPE memorializes a life and a writer guided by a generous but unwavering moral gaze.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780618088010
ISBN-10: 0618088016
Dimensiuni: 103 x 178 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.09 kg
Ediția:Completă
Editura: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Colecția Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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ISBN-10: 0618088016
Dimensiuni: 103 x 178 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.09 kg
Ediția:Completă
Editura: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Colecția Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Seria .
Recenzii
"Penelope Fitzgerald is the finest British writer alive."
The Los Angeles Times
“Warm and wry, her writing is as economical as it is perfect. It’s always a pleasure to see a new book under her name.”
The Washington Post
"She is, isn't she, the best." -- A.S. Byatt
“Reading [Fitzgerald’s Tction] is like having someone play Mozart two rooms away: light, sweet — jolly, even — and utterly piercing, like a needle though the heart.”
The New Yorker
“Fitzgerald is the funniest writer in English now alive.”
New Republic —
The Los Angeles Times
“Warm and wry, her writing is as economical as it is perfect. It’s always a pleasure to see a new book under her name.”
The Washington Post
"She is, isn't she, the best." -- A.S. Byatt
“Reading [Fitzgerald’s Tction] is like having someone play Mozart two rooms away: light, sweet — jolly, even — and utterly piercing, like a needle though the heart.”
The New Yorker
“Fitzgerald is the funniest writer in English now alive.”
New Republic —
Notă biografică
PENELOPE FITZGERALD wrote many books small in size but enormous in popular and critical acclaim over the past two decades. Over 300,000 copies of her novels are in print, and profiles of her life appeared in both The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine. In 1979, her novel Offshore won Britain's Booker Prize, and in 1998 she won the National Book Critics Circle Prize for The Blue Flower. Though Fitzgerald embarked on her literary career when she was in her 60's, her career was praised as "the best argument ... for a publishing debut made late in life" (New York Times Book Review). She told the New York Times Magazine, "In all that time, I could have written books and I didn't. I think you can write at any time of your life." Dinitia Smith, in her New York Times Obituary of May 3, 2000, quoted Penelope Fitzgerald from 1998 as saying, "I have remained true to my deepest convictions, I mean to the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses of the strong, and the tragedy of misunderstandings and missed opportunities, which I have done my best to treat as comedy, for otherwise how can we manage to bear it?"