Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2014 Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself in such grand terms. Her novels were short, spare masterpieces, self-concealing, oblique and subtle. She won the Booker Prize for her novel Offshore in 1979, and her last work, The Blue Flower, was acclaimed as a work of genius. The early novels drew on her own ...
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Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2014 Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself in such grand terms. Her novels were short, spare masterpieces, self-concealing, oblique and subtle. She won the Booker Prize for her novel Offshore in 1979, and her last work, The Blue Flower, was acclaimed as a work of genius. The early novels drew on her own experiences - a boat on the Thames in the 1960s; the BBC in war time; a failing bookshop in Suffolk; an eccentric stage-school. The later ones opened out to encompass historical worlds which, magically, she seemed to possess entirely: Russia before the Revolution; post-war Italy; Germany in the time of the Romantic writer Novalis. Fitzgerald's life is as various and as cryptic as her fiction. It spans most of the twentieth century, and moves from a Bishop's Palace to a sinking barge, from a demanding intellectual family to hardship and poverty, from a life of teaching and obscurity to a blaze of renown. She was first published at sixty and became famous at eighty. This is a story of lateness, patience and persistence: a private form of heroism. Loved and admired, and increasingly recognised as one of the outstanding novelists of her time, she remains, also, mysterious and intriguing. She liked to mislead people with a good imitation of an absent-minded old lady, but under that scatty front were a steel-sharp brain and an imagination of wonderful reach. This brilliant account - by a biographer whom Fitzgerald herself admired - pursues her life, her writing, and her secret self, with fascinated interest.
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Fine. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 528 p. Contains: Illustrations. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
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Fine in fine jacket. A fine, fresh, apparently unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. xvi+ genealogical chart+ 488 pp. with index. Illustrated endpaper and additonal illustrations in the text. Acclaimed biography of Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton provides this intimate portrait of one of the most quietly brillian novelists of the 20th century, Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000). A native of Lincoln in England, Fitzgerald was late to launch her own literary career with biographies published beginning in 1978. Her first novel was a comic murder mystery " The Golden Child" (1977), set in a museum during the Tutankhamun mania and written as an amusement for her terminally ill husband. Over the next five years she published four more novels, all semi-autobiographical: "The Bookshop" (1978) was short-listed for the Booker Prize and was adapted for film in 2017; "Offshore" (1979) which won the Booker, "Human Voices" (1980), and "At Freddie's" (1982). She continued to write biographies and historical novels, her final novel being "The Blue Flower" (1999). In 1999, she was awarded The Golden PEN Award for "A lifetime's distinguished serive to literature". In 2008, the Times listed her as among the 50 greatest British writers since the end of World War II; .