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Means of Escape by Penélope Fitzgerald (2000, Hardcover)
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780618079940
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0618079947
ISBN-13
9780618079940
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1665967
Product Key Features
Book Title
Means of Escape
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author)
Publication Year
2000
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
9.9 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
00-038914
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
The career of the English novelist Penelope Fitzgerald offers the best argument I know for a publishing debut made late in life . . . An uncommonly perceptive writer, acute though not sour about human nature, and the master of a spare, subtle style., "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, Reading [Fitzgerald's Þction] is like having someone play Mozart two rooms away: light, sweet - jolly, even - and utterly piercing, like a needle though the heart., "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.", "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
Dewey Decimal
FIC
Synopsis
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., With the death of Penelope Fitzgerald this year, the literary world lost one of its finest, most original, and most beloved authors. Fitzgerald began her writing career at age sixty and wrote eight remarkable novels in rapid succession over the next twenty years. 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 theUnited 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. Concise, comic, biting, and mischievous, they are vintage Fitzgerald. 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 arein positions of power--by wealth, status, or class--and those who, deceptively, are not. THE MEANS OF ESCAPE memorializes a life and a writer guided by a generous but unwavering moral gaze.
LC Classification Number
PR6056.I86M43 2000
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