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The Means of Escape
by Fitzgerald, Penelope
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- Seller
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Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A Fine, unread, copy of the first edition, first printing with a bit of sunning to the upper edges, in a near Fine dust jacket (with sunning to the jacket's spine and upper edge and a shadow from removal of a security sticker from the verso but otherwise Fine). The book was published soon after the author's death and is her DEBUT COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES.
Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3701
- Title
- The Means of Escape
- Author
- Fitzgerald, Penelope
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston and New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Debut Works; Short Stories;
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