· PENELOPE FITZGERALD wrote many books small in size but enormous in popular and critical acclaim over the past two decades. Over , copies of her novels are in print, and profiles of her life appeared in both The New Yorker and The New York Times www.doorway.ru , her novel Offshore won Britain's Booker Prize, and in she won the National Book Critics Circle Prize for Brand: HMH Books. The last book and only collection of short stories by Penelope Fitzgerald fittingly showcases her at her wisest, her funniest, her best. Like her novels, these stories are "mordantly funny, morally astute [as] they plumb the endless absurdities of the human heart" (Washington Post Book World). Roaming the globe and the ages, the stories travel from England to France to New Zealand and /5(2). · Small but perfectly formed. Penelope Fitzgerald's last collection of short stories, The Means of Escape, shows her at the top of her form. Adam www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins.
Editions for The Means of Escape: (Paperback published in ), (Paperback published in ), (Hardcover published in. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate Bookplateleaf Boxid IA City Bath, England Donor allen_county Edition. PENELOPE FITZGERALD wrote many books small in size but enormous in popular and critical acclaim over the past two decades. Over , copies of her novels are in print, and profiles of her life appeared in both The New Yorker and The New York Times www.doorway.ru , her novel Offshore won Britain's Booker Prize, and in she won the National Book Critics Circle Prize for The Blue Flower.
Penelope Fitzgerald's last book was a slim collection of short stories. The first two stories - The Means of Escape and The Axe are to me the most satisfying. The former, set in Victorian Tasmania, concerns an escaped convict and the help he receives from a minister's daughter after encountering her in church one evening; the second is a very effective ghost story. The last book and only collection of short stories by Penelope Fitzgerald fittingly showcases her at her wisest, her funniest, her best. Like her novels, these stories are "mordantly funny, morally astute [as] they plumb the endless absurdities of the human heart" (Washington Post Book World). Completed just before her death, THE MEANS OF ESCAPE is 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.
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