The Bookshop / The Gate of Angels / The Blue Flower

Author(s): Penelope Fitzgerald

Fiction.

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.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9781857152470
  • : Everyman
  • : Everyman's Library
  • : January 2001
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Penelope Fitzgerald
  • : CR
  • : 105
  • : en
  • : 823/.914
  • : 472