| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 488 pages) : illustrations |
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text file rda |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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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An intimate portrait of the acclaimed twentieth-century writer discusses how her personal experiences inspired her later-in-life writing career and the creations of such award-winning novels as "The Gate of Angels" and "Offshore." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-460) and index. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
Fitzgerald, Penelope.
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Fitzgerald, Penelope. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Subject |
Women novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Women novelists, English. |
| Genre |
Downloadable e-Books.
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Electronic books. |
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Biography.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Lee, Hermione. Penelope Fitzgerald London : Chatto & Windus, 2013 9780701184957 |
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Lee, Hermione. Penelope Fitzgerald New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014 9780385352345 (DLC) 2013047581 (OCoLC)868981482 |
| ISBN |
9780385352352 : $53.85 |
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0385352352 : $53.85 |
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