Knopf, November 2014. Hardcover. Used Very Good/Good. Dust Jacket has some edge and corner wear, some scuffing, fading on spine, but still intact. Front and back covers have very light edge and corner wear. Spine intact with no creasing or warping. Binding is tight and intact, pages clean and unmarked. We carry new and used books in our storefront. We want you to be satisfied with your purchase. Please contact us if you have questions regarding this item.

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HERMIONE LEE is a biographer, critic, and teacher of literature. Her previous books include the internationally acclaimed biography, Virginia Woolf ("One of the most impressive biographies of the decade: moving, eloquent, powerful", Financial Times ) and Edith Wharton ("A feat of exhaustive research... a glorious biography", Independent on Sunday ), as well as books on Elizabeth Bowen, Willa Cather and Philip Roth. Her collection of essays on life-writing, Body Parts , was published in 2005, and her Biography: A Very Short Introduction in 2009. She is the President of Wolfson College Oxford. In 2013 she was made a Dame for services to Literary Scholarship. She lives in Oxford and Yorkshire.

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On Feb 28 2018, a reader said:

Hermione Lee's biography of Penelope Fitzgerald gives a fascinating and clear picture of her life, her marriage, family and friends, and the trouble she had to earn enough to keep her familyand to keep them afloat (literally), at one point in their lives (see "Offshore"), and finally to get the time to write, something se knew from anearly age that she was destined to do. She did not manage it until in her sixties. She had to be the chief breadwinner of the family, which she achieved by reviewing books and teaching. Hermione Lee takes us through each of her books in turn, helping us to appreciate and understand each of them better.

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Bookseller: Firefly Bookstore LLC (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 390148
Title: Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
Author: Hermione Lee
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used Very Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0385352344
ISBN 13: 9780385352345
Publisher: Knopf
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: November 2014
Pages: 512
Bookseller catalogs: Biography/Literature;

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