Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
By Hermione Lee.
Description
Intimate, perceptive, critically acute, funny and moving, this is the first full biography of one of the finest English novelists of the last century. 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 B...
ISBN(s)
0099546590, 9780099546597