The Means of Escape (Paperback)

from CurrerBell

I don't generally care for these stories, but one of the better ones is titled "Our Lives Are Only Lent to Us" and it apparently only appears in the paperback edition, which includes an additional two stories over the original eight in the hardcover. For the sake of completeness, if acquiring thi...

from papercat

As well as being a wonderful writer, Penelope Fitzgerald had quite an inspiring literary career; she was sixty years old when her first novel was published but she went on to write eight others, plus several biographies, receive great critical acclaim, and win the Booker prize. Before beginning t...

from dcnorm1

Short stories that reflect Fitzgerald's style of her novels: Deceptively simple writing that captures and reveals to the reader enormously powerful thoughts, characters that seem initially simple but do and say things that leave your gasping but are never out of character. The stories all in one ...

from dcnorm1

Short stories that reflect Fitzgerald's style of her novels: Deceptively simple writing that captures and reveals to the reader enormously powerful thoughts, characters that seem initially simple but do and say things that leave your gasping but are never out of character. The stories all in one ...