The Bookshop / The Gate of Angels / The Blue Flower (Everyman's Library)

Fitzgerald, Penelope

ISBN 10: 1857152476 / ISBN 13: 9781857152470

Edité par Everyman's Library Ltd, 2003

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Synopsis :

Penelope Fitzgerald, who died in 2000, emerged late in life as one of the most remarkable English writers of the last century. The three novels in this volume all display her characteristic wit, intellectual breadth and narrative brilliance, applied to the different traditional forms into which she breathed new life. The Bookshop is a contemporary comedy of manners, set in a provincial town. InThe Gate of Angels romance is combined with the novel of ideas; while The Blue Flower revitalizes historical drama in a study of the eighteenth-century German writer Novalis. Fitzgerald being the genius of the relevant detail and the deftly sketched conceptual context, each book conjures up a different world in a few vivid pages which remain etched on the memory.

Revue de presse: “The Bookshop is a little gem...A classic whose force as a piece of physical and moral mapmaking has not merely lasted but has actually improved with the passage of years.” –New York Times Book Review

“Wryly, even comically animated...On any reckoning, [The Bookshop is] a marvelously piercing fiction.” –Times Literary Supplement

“[The Gate of Angels] is an achievement–a metaphysical novel which is entertaining, brief, and a love story...A miracle of technique.” –The Times (London)

“[The Gate of Angels] contains more wit, intelligence, and feeling than many novels three times its length. It confirms Fitzgerald’s place as one of the finest and most entertaining novelists in England.” –The Observer

“[The Blue Flower] is a quite astonishing book, a masterpiece.” –New York Times Book Review

“Her limpid, exact prose reflects an unwaveringly clear view of the human predicament. Fitzgerald seems to be one of those rare artists gifted with both the knowledge of how things are and the skill to record what she knows with subtlety and devastating truthfulness.” –A. N. Wilson, Evening Standard

“The Blue Flower is an enchanting novel about heart, body, and mind. The writing is elliptical and witty...so that what could be a sad little love story is constantly funny and always absorbing, with a cast of characters both endearing and amusing. This novel is a jewel.” –Daily Telegraph

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Bookshop / The Gate of Angels / The Blue...
Éditeur : Everyman's Library Ltd
Date d'édition : 2003
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Very Good