Sixty-one when she published her first novel, Penelope Fitzgerald based many subsequent books on the experiences of a long and varied life.
Offshore, which won the Booker Prize in 1979, explores her time living on a barge at Battersea Reach.
Human Voices takes place in the BBC where she worked during World War II. Both are vivid, intimate pictures of ordinary life, startling, sad and funny by turns, conjuring up complex worlds with the economy of poetry.
The Beginning of Spring is an historical novel operating on a larger canvas. It presents a life unknown to the author through a story of English émigrés in pre-Revolutionary Russia and has been described by one critic as the best 'Russian' novel of the twentieth century.
Written with energy, passion and wit, and each quite different from the others, all three of these masterpieces reveal a lightness of touch with the most serious matters unlike anything else in contemporary fiction.
| ISBN: | 9781857152692 |
| Publication date: | 4th September 2003 |
| Author: | Penelope Fitzgerald |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 512 pages |
| Series: | Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
Sixty-one when she published her first novel, Penelope Fitzgerald based many subsequent books on the experiences of a long and varied life.
Offshore, which won the Booker Prize in 1979, explores her time living on a barge at Battersea Reach.
Human Voices takes place in the BBC where she worked during World War II. Both are vivid, intimate pictures of ordinary life, startling, sad and funny by turns, conjuring up complex worlds with the economy of poetry.
The Beginning of Spring is an historical novel operating on a larger canvas. It presents a life unknown to the author through a story of English émigrés in pre-Revolutionary Russia and has been described by one critic as the best 'Russian' novel of the twentieth century.
Written with energy, passion and wit, and each quite different from the others, all three of these masterpieces reveal a lightness of touch with the most serious matters unlike anything else in contemporary fiction.
Offshore, Human Voices, The Beginning Of Spring features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction
Offshore, Human Voices, The Beginning Of Spring is available in Hardback
Offshore, Human Voices, The Beginning Of Spring was written by Penelope Fitzgerald and published by Everyman
Offshore, Human Voices, The Beginning Of Spring has 512 pages
Yes it is part of Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics series
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