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The Means of Escape
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ISBN10: 0618154507
ISBN13: 9780618154500
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Published: Sep 20 2001
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.58 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780618154500
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Published: Sep 20 2001
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.58 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
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 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. 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 are in 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.
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