Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
by Lee, Hermione
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0385352344
- ISBN 13
- 9780385352345
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Synopsis
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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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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- Title
- Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
- Author
- Lee, Hermione
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0385352344
- ISBN 13
- 9780385352345
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2014-11-18
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