The means of escape / Penelope Fitzgerald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fitzgerald, Penelope.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

England--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.

England.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

117 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

Summary:

With the death of Penelope Fitzgerald this year, the literary world lost one of its finest 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 wisest, her funniest, her best. Like her novels, these brilliant stores are miniature studies of the endless absurdity of human behavior. 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 hold positions of power -- by wealth, status, or class -- and those who, deceptively, do not.

The Means of Escape memorializes a life and a writer guided by a generous but unwavering moral gaze.

Contents:

The means of escape

The prescription

Desideratus

Beehernz

The axe

The red-haired girl

Not shown

At Hiruharama.

ISBN:

0618079947

OCLC:

43851508