The Bookshop / The Gate of Angels / The Blue Flower
Author(s): Penelope Fitzgerald
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.
General Information
- :
- : Everyman
- : Everyman's Library
- : 0.564
- : 01 January 2001
- : 22.00 cmmm X 12.90 cmmm X 2.80 cmmm
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Penelope Fitzgerald
- : 105
- : en
- : 472