Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life

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Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWâ€™ S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
A Best Book of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times
Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography

The acclaimed biographer of Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf gives us an intimate portrait of one of the most quietly brilliant novelists of the twentieth century.

Penelope Fitzgerald was a great English writer whose career didn't begin until she was nearly sixty. She would go on to win some of the most coveted awards in literatureâ€”the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Now, in an impeccable match of talent between biographer and subject, Hermione Lee, a master biographer and one of Fitzgerald's greatest champions, gives us this remarkable writerâ€™s story. Leeâ€™s critical expertise is on dazzling display on every page, as it illuminates this extraordinary English life. Fitzgerald, born into an accomplished intellectual family, the granddaughter of two bishops, led a life marked by dramatic twists of fate, moving from a bishopâ€™s palace to a sinking houseboat to a last, late blaze of renown. We see Fitzgeraldâ€™s very English childhood in the village of Hampstead; her Oxford years, when she was known as the â€œblonde bombshellâ€; her impoverished adulthood as a struggling wife, mother and schoolteacher, raising a family in difficult circumstances; and the long-delayed start to her literary career.

Fitzgeraldâ€™s early novels draw on her own experiencesâ€”working at the BBC in wartime, at a bookshop in Suffolk, at an eccentric stage school in the 1960sâ€”while her later books open out into historical worlds that she, magically, seems to entirely possess: Russia before the Revolution, postwar Italy, Germany in the time of the Romantic writer Novalis. Fitzgeraldâ€™s novels are short, spare masterpieces, and Hermione Lee unfurls them here as works of genius. Expertly researched, written out of love and admiration for this wonderful authorâ€™s work, Penelope Fitzgerald is literary biography at its finestâ€”an unforgettable story of lateness, persistence and survival.

Country	USA
Author	Hermione Lee
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9780385352345
Edition	1St Edition
Format	Deckle Edge
ISBN	0385352344
Label	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	512
PublicationDate	2014-11-18
Publisher	Knopf
ReleaseDate	2014-11-18
Studio	Knopf

Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life

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