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Offshore
Penelope Fitzgerald
其他書名
Human Voices ; The Beginning of Spring
出版
Everyman
, 2003
主題
Fiction / General
Fiction / Literary
ISBN
1857152697
9781857152692
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=etpyAAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Sixty-one when she published her first novel, Penelope Fitzgerald based many subsequent books on the experiences of a long and varied life.
Offshore
, which won the
Booker Prize in 1979
, explores her time living on a barge at Battersea Reach.
Human Voices
takes place in the BBC where she worked during World War II. Both are vivid, intimate pictures of ordinary life, startling, sad and funny by turns, conjuring up complex worlds with the economy of poetry.
The Beginning of Spring
is an historical novel operating on a larger canvas. It presents a life unknown to the author through a story of English emigres in pre-Revolutionary Russia and has been
described by one critic as the best 'Russian' novel of the twentieth century
.
Written with energy, passion and wit, and each quite different from the others, all three of these masterpieces reveal a lightness of touch with the most serious matters unlike anything else in contemporary fiction.