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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HERMIONE LEE
The previously uncollected occasional prose of a great English writer – full of wit, feeling and illumination.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HERMIONE LEE
The previously uncollected occasional prose of a great English writer – full of wit, feeling and illumination.
Penelope Fitzgerald was a prolific letter writer. She avoided the phone if she could, never even contemplated the possibility of going online. Her warmth, humour and supreme storytelling abilities found their best forum here. Surprising, wonderfully funny, definitive, this is a major collection of Penelope Fitzgerald’s reviews, essays and autobiographical writings.
This collection includes pieces on contemporary novelists Giles Foden, Anne Enright, Carol Shields, Rose Tremain, Roddy Doyle; on classic writers Muriel Spark, A.E. Housman, Rose Macaulay, M.R. James, Stevie Smith, Dorothy L. Sayers; on remembering her grandfather E.H. Shepard; on her love of Devon and Spain and William Morris: on writers in their old age; and witty and poignant recollections of her schooldays, her life on a Thames barge, her childhood in Hampstead and the ghost who lived next door but one.
This is a fantastically funny book – as much of an entertainment as the Kingsley Amis letters.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 07 november 2005
Aantal pagina's: 592
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: Penelope Fitzgerald
Hoofduitgeverij: Harperperennial
Editie: New edition
Product breedte: 129 mm
Product hoogte: 36 mm
Product lengte: 198 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 129 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 36 mm
Verpakking lengte: 198 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 400 g
EAN: 9780007136438