A collection of Penelope Fitzgerald's short stories.
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.
The Means of Escape - Penelope Fitzgerald
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