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In his Understanding Penelope Fitzgerald (2004), Peter Wolfe characterised the novel as "a pocket epic, packing into 141 pages the piecemeal dissolution of a way of life". [6] He considered the work to be that of a master [7] – more darkly expansive than Fitzgerald's first two novels while displaying the same tightness and precision. [6]
Penelope Mary Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 – 28 April 2000) was a Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer from Lincoln, England. [1] In 2008 The Times listed her among "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945". [ 2 ]
Offshore, a 1979 British novel by Penelope Fitzgerald The Offshore, an elite enclave of the chosen, in 3% Offshore (album) , a 2006 album by Indiana-based post-rock band Early Day Miners
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The Means of Escape is a 2000 short story collection by Penelope Fitzgerald, published shortly after her death. It was first issued as a series of eight (later eleven) stories, most of which were first published between 1975 and 1998.
The Beginning of Spring is a 1988 novel by the British author Penelope Fitzgerald. Set in Moscow in 1913, it tells the story of a Moscow-born English-educated print shop owner whose English wife has suddenly abandoned him and their three children. The novel was shortlisted for the 1988 Booker Prize.
As a novel by a still relatively unknown writer, The Bookshop appeared to mostly condescending initial reviews. [3] The Times called it "a harmless, conventional little anecdote, well-tailored but uninvolving"; The Guardian a "disquieting" novel about "really nasty people living in a really nice little coastal town"; and The Times Literary Supplement, while calling it "marvellously piercing ...
He was born in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire, in 1919 and educated at High Pavement School, Stanley Road, Nottingham, and later at University College Nottingham.. Middleton started writing while at university and in 1958 published A Short Answer.