The Bookshop / The Gate Of Angels / The Blue Flower
Author: Penelope Fitzgerald
Stock information
General Fields
: $42.00 AUD
: 9781857152470
: Everyman
: Everyman's Library
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: 0.564
: 01 January 2001
: 22.00 cmmm X 12.90 cmmm X 2.80 cmmm
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: Penelope Fitzgerald
: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
: CR
: 105
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: en
: 823/.914
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Description
Publisher's description: The Bookshop is a postwar tragicomedy of manners, set in an isolated seaside town where an enterprising woman opens a bookstore only to find it beset by poltergeists, weather, and hostile townsfolk. The Gate of Angels is an Edwardian romance within a novel of ideas: a young doctor devoted to science and to his all-male Cambridge college finds his life and views disrupted by a nurse named Daisy. The Blue Flower, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, revitalizes historical drama through the story of Novalis, an eighteenth-century German romantic poet and visionary genius, and his unlikely love affair with a simple child-woman. These three novels all display Fitzgerald2s characteristic wit, intellectual breadth, and narrative brilliance, applied to an array of traditional forms into which she breathed new life.