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Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most elegant and distinctive voices in British fiction. Three of her novels, The Bookshop, The Beginning of Spring and The Gate of Angels have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She won the Prize in 1979 for Offshore. Her last novel, The Blue Flower, was the most admired novel of 1995, chosen no fewer than nineteen times in the press as the `Book of the Year'. It won America's National Book Critics' Circle Award, and this helped to introduce her to a wider international readership. She died in April 2000, at the age of eighty-three.
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`Of all the novelists in English in the last quarter-century, she has the most inarguable claim on greatness. This is a small book, probably not above 25,000 words, but a remarkably rich one. It sets the seal on a career we, as readers, can only count ourselves lucky to have lived through.' Philip Hensher, Spectator`So readable, so sharply tender, at the top of her form.' Adam Mars-Jones, Observer`As succinct, droll and individual as Fitzgerald has, over the years, given us every right to expect.' Sunday Times`Luminous, dark, unflinching.' Hermione Lee, TLS`Eight masterpieces, polished and perfect, and with such mesmerising characters that each story is equal to any novel.' Polly Samson, Independent `Books of the Year'
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A collection of short stories from `one of the finest and most entertaining novelists writing in England today (Observer) Penelope Fitzgerald is, now more than ever, one of the most highly-regarded writers on the English literary scene. Apart from Iris Murdoch no other writer has been shortlisted for the Booker more often than Penelope Fitzgerald. PFs last novel, The Blue Flower, was the book of its year, garnering extraordinary acclaim in Britain, America and Europe. These stories have all been published before, but in newspapers, journals and British Council-sponsored volumes of new writing. So even the most dedicated Fitzgerald fans are unlikely to have come across them. This is the first time they will have been collected together in volume form. From the tale of a young boy in seventeenth-century England who loses a precious keepsake and finds it frozen in a puddle of ice, to that of a group of buffoonish amateur Victorian painters on a trip to Brittany, these stories are characteristically wide-ranging, enigmatic and very funny. They are each miniature studies of the endless absurdity of human behaviour, seen simultaneously with Fitzgeralds generous, but unwavering moral gaze. This collection is an absolute treat. You will never read a better collection. Fitzgeralds ability to capture an entire world in a story of only eight pages is unsurpassable. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR001761236
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