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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Thorndike Pr
Publication date
August 1, 2001
Pages
120
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Large print
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780786233427
ISBN-10
0786233427
Dimensions
0.50 by 5.50 by 8.25 in.
Weight
0.40 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$23.95
Other format details
large print
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
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Amazon.com description: Product Description:
With the death of Penelope Fitzgerald this year, the literary world lost one of its finest, most original, and most beloved authors. Fitzgerald began her writing career at age sixty and wrote eight remarkable novels in rapid succession over the next twenty years. Completed just before her death, THE MEANS OF ESCAPE is Fitzgerald's first new book since the best-selling THE BLUE FLOWER. Never before have her short stories been collected in book form, and none of them has ever appeared in the United States.
THE MEANS OF ESCAPE showcases this incomparable author at her most intelligent, her funniest, her best. Like her novels, these brilliant stories are miniature studies of the endless absurdity of human behavior. Concise, comic, biting, and mischievous, they are vintage Fitzgerald. Roaming the globe and the ages, the stories travel from England to France to New Zealand and from today to the seventeenth century. Uniting them is a universal theme: the shifting balance between those who are in positions of power--by wealth, status, or class--and those who, deceptively, are not. THE MEANS OF ESCAPE memorializes a life and a writer guided by a generous but unwavering moral gaze.
THE MEANS OF ESCAPE showcases this incomparable author at her most intelligent, her funniest, her best. Like her novels, these brilliant stories are miniature studies of the endless absurdity of human behavior. Concise, comic, biting, and mischievous, they are vintage Fitzgerald. Roaming the globe and the ages, the stories travel from England to France to New Zealand and from today to the seventeenth century. Uniting them is a universal theme: the shifting balance between those who are in positions of power--by wealth, status, or class--and those who, deceptively, are not. THE MEANS OF ESCAPE memorializes a life and a writer guided by a generous but unwavering moral gaze.
Editions
Hardcover
Large print edition from Chivers (June 1, 2001)
9780754045137 | details & prices | 120 pages | List price $55.01
About: With the death of Penelope Fitzgerald this year, the literary world lost one of its finest, most original, and most beloved authors.
About: With the death of Penelope Fitzgerald this year, the literary world lost one of its finest, most original, and most beloved authors.
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
Large print edition from Thorndike Pr (August 1, 2001)
9780786233427 | details & prices | 120 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.40 lbs | List price $23.95
About: With the death of Penelope Fitzgerald this year, the literary world lost one of its finest, most original, and most beloved authors.
About: With the death of Penelope Fitzgerald this year, the literary world lost one of its finest, most original, and most beloved authors.
Largeprint edition from Chivers (June 1, 2001)
9780754045144 | details & prices | 120 pages | List price $22.01
About: With the death of Penelope Fitzgerald this year, the literary world lost one of its finest, most original, and most beloved authors.
About: With the death of Penelope Fitzgerald this year, the literary world lost one of its finest, most original, and most beloved authors.
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