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Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most highly-regarded writers on the English literary scene. Apart from Iris Murdoch, no other writer has been shortlisted so many times for the Booker. Her last novel, The Blue Flower, was the book of its year, garnering extraordinary acclaim in Britain, America and Europe. This superb collection of stories, originally published in anthologies and newspapers, shows Penelope Fitzgerald at her very best. From the tale of a young boy in 17-century England who loses a precious keepsake and finds it frozen in a puddle of ice, to that of a group of buffoonish amateur Victorian painters on a trip to Brittany, these stories are characteristically wide ranging, enigmatic and very funny. They are each miniature studies of the endless absurdity of human behaviour.
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Fernando Dorado
reviewed The means of escape on September 06, 2020
The means of escape
My last Penelope Fitzgerald! Unless start on her nonfiction. And there's always the Hermoine Lee biography, I guess. Just imagine if she'd begun writing at the age of 30 instead of 60. Unlike the short stories of Alice Munro, which leave you feeling as if there is nothing more to say, a whole life has been captured in a few dozen pages, these made me almost sad when I turned the page and saw that another story was drawing to a close. They seem almost like sketches written when she just returned from a holiday, or was in the mood for a holiday, though I'm certain she could have pulled quite a few of them into novels if she had wanted to. The last story especially, set in Mexico and, along with 'At Hiruharama,' one of my favorites stories in the collection. They vary greatly in setting, Greece, Mexico, New Zealand, and time period, which is exactly what I have come to expect from her. Here's to the odd magnificence that is the oeuvre of Penelope Fitzgerald.
The Means of Escape - 4
The Prescription - 3
Desideratus - 4
Beehernz - 4
The Axe - 4
The Red-Haired Girl - 3
Not Shown - 3
At Hiruharama - 5
The Likeness - 3
Our Lives Are Only Leant to Us - 5
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